Spider Robinson Quotes

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

Spider Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 24, 1948

Topics

WalkDayMenForwardPennyCanada

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

John Cullum

FinanceWarServingMasterDegree

You are not going to get married through technology. You are not going to buy a house through technology.

Ana Patricia Botin

TechnologyYouHouseBuyGoingGet

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Amos Oz

CompromiseEndLearnUnhappyStop

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

I AmBlessedOpportunitiesPerson

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

ShySociableVeryInsecure

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

Debra Stephenson

LoveLondonSixtiesSwingingIdea

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

MenFreeDieMayInstitutions

The love the people of Leicester showed towards me was incredible. Even more than winning the Premier League.

Claudio Ranieri

LovePeopleMeWinningMoreEven

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

NatureLiveSeaGreatMenEat

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

William Glasser

PeopleCrazyBookThinkYouKnow

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

WorkGoodMeGood WorkJealousFeel

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

Pauley Perrette

WorkGirlNew YorkMeSayingShort

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