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

• The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • System

• 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

• A bad version of a virtual reality video makes you vomit in your headset in under 10 seconds. It's much easier to make bad VR than it is to make good VR.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

  

  Frans van Houten
  • People
  • Time
  • Sick

• 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

• Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Happy

• Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Youth
  • Steps
  • Adolescence

• Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Rules
  • Pilgrim

• When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Married
  • Attack

• 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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