Spider Robinson Quotes

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

Spider Robinson

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Fail

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Kind
  • Weird
  • Television

• Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Health
  • Dark

• Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Guy

• When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Easy

• Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Confident

• I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Fall
  • Never

• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Very

• The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't fall easy often I never had a love like you before.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Fall

• Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • Good
  • Guy

• Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

  

  Matthew Lawrence
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Laughing
  • Maps
  • Arses

• The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'

  

  Ken Follett
  • Great
  • She
  • High

• I loved fantasy role play.

  

  Curt Schilling

• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Color
  • Distance
  • Emotion

• Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Fall