Spider Robinson Quotes

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

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• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
  • Sit

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Meeting

• Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Confidence
  • Fact
  • Cause

• Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Shining
  • Fears

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Home
  • Job

• God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • God
  • Feeling

• What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Girl

• The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Earth
  • Law
  • Star

• I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Famous

• You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• 'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Holiday

• If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Up

• The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Good
  • School
  • Girl

• On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them.

  

  Christa B. Allen

• I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Free
  • Joy
  • Empty House

• Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Pain
  • Joy