"They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place"

“You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.”

“But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.”

“Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.”

Source : Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."

“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”

“Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.”

“But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.”

“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.”

“Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.”

Source : David Abrahamsen (1973). “The murdering mind”, Harpercollins