Jo Robinson Quotes

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

I ain't never liked violence.

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

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.

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

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

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

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

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

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Now I've probably got to be more aggressive and pick up where [Marbury] left off, but I'm just going to take it how it comes. I'm not going to force it. I'm going to let the game come to me.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.