Tom Robinson famous quotes

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary.
-- Tom Robinson

#Book #Taken #Thinking

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.
-- Tom Robinson

#Past #Gone #Forgotten

I was quite reluctant in the first instance to come to use the word bisexual with regard to myself because I didn't feel any different inside from the way I had always felt. I always found men attractive. I still find men attractive. I figure out of, you know, every 200 men that pass on the street, I'm going to go, 100 of those are nice looking guys. Now, with every 200 women that pass on the street, maybe one is going to turn my head.
-- Tom Robinson

#Nice #Bisexual #Men

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.
-- Tom Robinson

#Responsibility #Thinking #Stories

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.
-- Tom Robinson

#Thinking #Editors #Important

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.
-- Tom Robinson

#Kings #War #Dozen

My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.
-- Tom Robinson

#Book #Reading #Names

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.