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My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
— Marilynne Robinson
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
— Frank Robinson
Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.
— Marilynne Robinson
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
— Gene Robinson
There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
— Branch Rickey
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
— William Everson
It started back in '79,My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson
When you fill your soul by listening to and acting on your intuition, you'll find yourself moving toward the fulfillment of your dreams.
— Lynn A. Robinson
A beginning is the end of something, always.
— Spider Robinson
And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy).
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I
— Spider Robinson
My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.
— Marilynne Robinson
Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire.
— Marilynne Robinson
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
— Jackie Robinson
It was a whiny culture, we were finding.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
When you write a song, a song has longevity.
— Smokey Robinson
A voteless people is a hopeless people.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
— Marilynne Robinson
A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
— Marilynne Robinson
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
— Gene Robinson
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
— James Harvey Robinson
Maybe that's what a marriage is," Mqaret said. "Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
— Theodore Robinson
I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.
— Marilynne Robinson
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
— Brooks Robinson
...I'm as happy as a pig in mud, but I would have normally been as horrible, angry, and sad as a pig turned into bacon.
— Aquila Robinson
I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.
— Bruce Robinson
Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.
— Debra Robinson
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
like a tank following a sports car through a slalom course.
— Jeremy Robinson
Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
— Daniel N. Robinson
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
— Robert Robinson
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
— Bruce Robinson
Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.
— Lynn A. Robinson
It is a long time ago. So many lives agoI get them all confused, don't you? — Kim Stanley Robinson
This is what they mean by 'ghost town', she thought. It truly feels like a place frozen in time
— Jeremy Robinson
To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.
— Marilynne Robinson
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
— Jill Robinson
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.
— Marilynne Robinson
Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.
— Marilynne Robinson
But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.
— Shawna Robinson
I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that
— Lucy Robinson
Life is not a spectator sport.
— Jackie Robinson
She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.
— Smokey Robinson
Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.
— Ken Robinson
The Obsidian Order?" I asked."What do you know about us?"
"Nothing."
"That's a good start. — Andrew J. Robinson
Hell works better when it's a lot more subtle.
— Joel Robinson
She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.
— Marilynne Robinson
Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists ... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.
— William Baziotes
You can only kill disappointment with a new try.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'
— Nick Robinson
I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
— Bruce Robinson
For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.
— Haddon W. Robinson
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
— Edward G. Robinson
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
— Marilynne Robinson
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
— Jackie Robinson
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
— Marilynne Robinson
Sometimes I get so scared." "Fear is a form of alertness. — Kim Stanley Robinson
We should think of Earth as our sun. We all revolve around it, and it exerts a huge drag on us.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Financial fitness is not pipe dream or a state of mind it's a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it.
— Will Robinson
The command to be free is a double bind
— Kim Stanley Robinson
It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.
— Steve M. Robinson Jr.
But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes' passion worth that?" "It is, it is. Believe me.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I had started to wonder if maybe my life wouldn't always hold so much pain if I could just find the courage to let it go.
— K.A. Robinson
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
— Randall Robinson
It can be nice and still be a prison." "I
— Kim Stanley Robinson
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person
— Kim Stanley Robinson
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
— Marilynne Robinson
Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ...
— Andrew J. Robinson
she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.
— Joan G. Robinson
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
— Richard Matheson
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
— Marilynne Robinson
We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.(Attributed to Reinhold Messner?) — Kim Stanley Robinson
With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.
— Chris Robinson
My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
— Smokey Robinson
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?
— Jackie Robinson
Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
— Robinson Jeffers
A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?
— Robinson Cano
I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour ofHeaven first ... — Spider Robinson
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!
— Lynn A. Robinson
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.
— Marilynne Robinson
Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.
— Marilynne Robinson
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
— Marilynne Robinson
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.
— Anne Robinson
More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.
— Jonathan Ross