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All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing. — Frank Robinson

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school. — Smokey Robinson

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar. — Marilynne 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

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

Who programmed this thing? — Kim Stanley Robinson

Missing someone meant that you are fortunate to love someone in the first place. If you don't miss them you don't love them — Rachel 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

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson

When you write a song, a song has longevity. — Smokey Robinson

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. — Brooks Robinson

no one else can live your life for you. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I don't like you, but I love you. — Smokey Robinson

Here. Hare. Here. Here hare here! — Bruce Robinson

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was. — Marilynne Robinson

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan 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 think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. — Marilynne 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

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. — Jackie Robinson

I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity. — Andrew J. Robinson

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's — Harper Lee

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then. — Debra Robinson

like a tank following a sports car through a slalom course. — Jeremy Robinson

Listen to your gut, her father was fond of saying, but make up your own damn mind. — Jeremy Robinson

I got mad love for hot tubs. — Craig Robinson

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. — Mabel 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

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

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. — Ken Robinson

More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson. — Jonathan Ross

You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you. — Joan G. Robinson

You making haste haste on decay ... — Robinson Jeffers

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. — Jackie Robinson

My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places. — Marilynne 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

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. — Sugar Ray Leonard

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything. — Marilynne Robinson

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read. — Marilynne Robinson

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights. — Larry Robinson

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. — Marilynne Robinson

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit. — Kim Stanley Robinson

know this - that you hide more than your bones when you're inside of me. — K.Y. Robinson

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel — Edwin Arlington Robinson

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. — James Harvey Robinson

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. — Sidney Poitier

the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune — Marilynne 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

Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime. — Marilynne Robinson

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next. — Ken Robinson

I want you to come, baby. I want you to come so hard. You're mine and I want to own your body, mind and soul, and I don't even know if that's enough, — M. Robinson

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her? — Marilynne Robinson

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. — Jackie Robinson

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure. — John Buchanan Robinson

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person — Kim Stanley Robinson

We continue to think of new things in old ways. — James Harvey 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

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer. — Ken Robinson

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us. — Marilynne Robinson

Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope. — Toni 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

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. — Holly Robinson

What worries you masters you — Haddon W. Robinson

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. — Marilynne Robinson

Where's the need of singing now? — Edwin Arlington Robinson

Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ... — Andrew J. Robinson

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you. — Edward G. Robinson

Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying. — Kim Stanley 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

Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes. — Kim Stanley 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

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you? — Haddon W. 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

The command to be free is a double bind — Kim Stanley Robinson

There is nothing that means more to a woman than a love she can count on. — Smokey 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.

Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art. — Garrett Robinson

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. — Kim Stanley Robinson

When you had the world and your body as canvases, why deal in squares of wallpaper? — Kim Stanley Robinson

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever. — Ken Robinson

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. — Ken Robinson

Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology? — Kim Stanley Robinson

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp. — Ken Robinson

But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes' passion worth that?" "It is, it is. Believe me. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel. — Chris 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

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both. — Kim Stanley Robinson