Robin Sloan Quotes

Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art.

Robin Sloan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ArtMeRandomUniqueNumbersSeem

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

Joanna Coles

TimeCelebrityAnySpendCultivating

I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.

Anat Cohen

PeopleCoolThinkHelping People

Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.

Angelique Kerber

MomentRelaxEnjoyComplicatedTry

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

PeopleThinkDeceiveGetOlder

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

John Vinocur

TimeWarRedSufferingPresentLook

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

Simon Callow

ResponsibilityCareSomeoneHand

I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.

Tom Holland

ThinkMoviesKindSeriouslyKid

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

Miranda July

BookYouGoNiceYearsJust

Honestly, it is not all about attitude; it is all about heart. You can have the attitude, you can have the swagger, you can talk your way, but it is all about heart.

Jason Pierre-Paul

AttitudeHeartYouWayTalkSwagger

It's unsurprising that while Americans and Donald Trump are working to re-establish the rule of law and rebuild civil society in America, CNN once again flies off the handle and tries to make everything about race in order to keep Americans divided.

Corey Stewart

LawSocietyAmericaDonald Trump

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

Bryan Batt

LifePeopleThoughtLonelyDoing

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

SoulBodyMoreAskMustWax

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Robin Sloan