Spider Robinson Quotes

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

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• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • inspirational
  • Difficult
  • Emotion

• Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Bigs
  • Okay
  • Knickers

• Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Discipline

• Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Death
  • Attention

• Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Science
  • Honesty

• That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Time
  • Way
  • Wealth

• There's no repentance in the grave.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Repentance
  • Graves

• The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Responsible
  • Presses

• Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Humans
  • Compliment