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

• 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

• I've always tried to stay fit, but I'm a little guy. I'm 5-foot-7.

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Guy

• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Attitude
  • Smart

• I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • True
  • Science
  • Reality

• My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Time
  • Art

• I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Violence

• 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