Spider Robinson Quotes

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • Help
  • For Her

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Love
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Legal
  • Bitcoin

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Female
  • Killer

• What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women

• All of these battered husbands are still with their wives. When a woman stays with a man who batters, we provide shelters to encourage her to escape. If she decides not to escape, we say she is a victim of 'Battered Woman Syndrome.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Quality

• If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Future

• In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Deep

• He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Time
  • She

• At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Long
  • Book
  • Boy

• I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Time

• I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Worry

• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • She
  • Together
  • Dying

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Wicked