Spider Robinson Quotes

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

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• As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Very

• I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Heard
  • Cried
  • Johnny

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Father
  • Son
  • Sacrifice

• When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Want
  • Brother
  • First

• I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • Bad
  • Girl

• Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn't know each other.

  

  Lela Loren
  • College
  • Spring

• Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Dream
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

  

  Jiang Wen

• You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Life

• War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • War
  • Exciting

• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  

  David Berman
  • World
  • Design
  • Creativity

• If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Why
  • Girl

• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  

  Neko Case
  • Up
  • Real
  • Song

• ...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Design