Spider Robinson Quotes

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

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• Life doesn't stop with football.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Football

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Women
  • Like
  • Coffee

• It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Fashion
  • Scared
  • Overlook

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Religion

• The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature

• I have an amazing relationship with food.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Amazing

• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • People
  • Men
  • Science

• I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Quality
  • Picture

• When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mother

• It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.

  

  Luke Evans

• I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.

  

  Jerry McNerney
  • Career
  • Energy
  • Professional

• If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

  

  Bryn Terfel
  • Music

• I feel like it's the last frontier: the weight thing with women. I think that so many women, like, even myself, I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes, or I can be judgmental of other people for their bodies. I don't know how to get over it.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • People
  • Women

• I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Fall

• Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Home
  • Giving
  • Charity

• When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People

• I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

  

  John Zorn
  • Life
  • Together

• If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world.

  

  Bobby Williams
  • Think
  • Change

• I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Live
  • Done
  • Science

• The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

  

  Spider Robinson