Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
sweat skulls years
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
love long people
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
inspirational engineering mind
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
stupid animal men
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)
school law gnats
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
blind instinct stranger-in-a-strange-land
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
cutting use way
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.
people laughing
And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.
should heard obscene
Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.
fall airplane sky
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
elephants circus wells
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
liberty politics libertarian
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
eternity century grows
It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
military men soldier
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.