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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

Topics

Black Help Dark Never Searching Cat

I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

Jeremy Abbott

Feel Ice Want Always Decide Retire

Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.

John Grogan

Love Technology Cell Phone Phone Old

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

John Cho

Culture Color America You Actor Way

I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.

Maysoon Zayid

Home Social Media Think Media You

When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.

John Knoll

Skill First Kid Industry Film Model

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

John Lawson

Fair Frank Merchants Carolina

I know I'm the greatest, and like I said, I ain't here to be average. I always wanted to stick out as a sore thumb, so that's what I'm doing. It's just confidence.

Max Holloway

Confidence Doing Know Said Out Here

Music is half the film.

Matthew Vaughn

Music Half Film

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Anna Deavere Smith

Mirror Society Selfish Better Been

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

Alton Brown

Food Road You Know Hot Dogs

I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.

Trixie Mattel

Love Denver Van Favorites I Love

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

Mary Szybist

Style People Shopping Chance Wonder