Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Robert Anton Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 18, 1932

Topics

LifeMeThinkWrongUpPlanet

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn't matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

YourselfMindYouWhyMatterAware

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SellingEveryoneSomethingLives

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Michael Behe

AgeHistoryPuzzleKeyUnderstanding

Driverless pods could have people who want to watch the same movie. Or there could be Tinder pods.

John Zimmer

PeopleWantSameWatchWhoMovie

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

KingCityKingsCountryBluesThree

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

Roger Penrose

WorkMathematicsMeReadingDrawing

I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.

Rory O'Malley

MomentMomActorEightWanted

We've seen it again and again. From civil rights to women's rights to marriage rights, this country has reinvented itself in the quest to make real the transcendent values that Lincoln proclaimed in his historic address - that all men are created equal in a nation conceived in liberty.

Mike Quigley

MarriageWomenMenValuesLiberty

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Mick Mulvaney

MoneyPeopleYouMoreCostOwn

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

Mira Sorvino

LoveGameNameYouSayWill

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Chief Seattle

NatureSeaWavesRegretUseless

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.

Christien Meindertsma

FatGivingBonePorkUsedSoap

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