Robert Rankin Quotes

The Professor shook his head. 'On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil. ~ Robert Rankin

Jack nodded. 'No,' he said.
Was that a trick answer? ~ Robert Rankin

And yes. They did become very drunk, the three of them.
And you're not supposed to be drunk when you get involved in matters such as this: Big Matters, Matters of an Apocalyptic Nature. You're supposed to be coldly sober. And you just can't be coldly sober when you're drunk. ~ Robert Rankin

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit. ~ Robert Rankin

What's that, Barry?'
'Nothing, chief! ~ Robert Rankin

Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to. ~ Robert Rankin

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father ~ Robert Rankin

Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way. ~ Robert Rankin

Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons? ~ Robert Rankin

Calm down please, sir, if you will,' said the bobby, still retaining a firm hold upon the horse's reins. ' "Stolen" is such an ugly word. It is not technically stealing if you are a British archaeologist and you acquire items of historical significance in the savage realms and liberate them to civilisation. ~ Robert Rankin

This is not the way things are done in Boy's Own Adventure books. I recall no mentions of homosexual gang-rape and cannibalism ~ Robert Rankin

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I've just put a dice in my tea. ~ Robert Rankin

Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride? ~ Robert Rankin

And there's the Midnight Growlers, a philosophical movement dedicated to high spiritual ideals and the pursuit of truth and -'
Beer,' said Tinto. ~ Robert Rankin

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway. ~ Robert Rankin

The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course. ~ Robert Rankin

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly. ~ Robert Rankin

Her hair was simply red and her coat was deacon blue. ~ Robert Rankin

Jack, get a grip of yourself.'
I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public. ~ Robert Rankin

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them. ~ Robert Rankin

Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.'
All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab. ~ Robert Rankin

There were large and small ones too. And some quite in-between. But all of equal nastiness.
And smelliness and ghastliness.
For they would eat a fellow up, as one might fish and chips ~ Robert Rankin

Omally shook his head. 'Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known. ~ Robert Rankin

Pooley the realist pooh-poohed such notions, but Pooley the mystic, dreamer and romantic sensed the aura of pagan mystery which surrounded the crop-headed man. ~ Robert Rankin

It was joy, joy, happy joy.
Happy, happy joy.
A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford. ~ Robert Rankin

Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn't like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac ~ Robert Rankin

As real as,' said Eddie.
'As real as what?' said Jack.
'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as ... ~ Robert Rankin

He could probably have persuaded even Cerberus to leave his post and go off in search of a few dog biscuits. ~ Robert Rankin

To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place. ~ Robert Rankin

Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree? ~ Robert Rankin

All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do? ~ Robert Rankin

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around. ~ Robert Rankin

Someone in the crowd, for there is always one, said, 'That's right, a mate of mine had it. ~ Robert Rankin

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. ~ Zane Stumpo

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981. ~ Robert Rankin

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize. ~ Robert Moses

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable. ~ Robert Payne

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience. ~ Robert Greene

Preparing for the ups and downs of life. ~ Robert D. Hales

The ear is the only writer and the only true reader. ~ Robert Frost

Peter also uses his wig as a cereal bowl ... He'll some times have some, like, Top Ramen in it. ~ Robert Pattinson

No one ever does anything but what he wants to do - 'enjoys' - within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing. ~ Robert Hunter

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. ~ Robert Burns

I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison. ~ Robert A. Johnson

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! ~ Robert Musil

It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons. ~ Robert M. Price

Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake. ~ Robert Dean

Nobody cares what the entrée is..... if the appetizer is turds in a blanket! ~ Robert Armstrong

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. ~ Robert Ludlum

No doubt the world's shamans have run the gamut from true believer to calculating fraud, and no doubt many true beliefs have been peppered by doubt. But so it is in other spiritual traditions, too. There are deeply religious Christian ministers who urge the congregation to pray for the ill even though they personally doubt that God uses opinion polls to decide who lives and who dies. ~ Robert Wright

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. ~ Robert Breault

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone ... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you ... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business. ~ Robert J. Flaherty

Perhaps true faith can only be born from the ashes of our own personal hell. ~ Robert Palasciano

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis. ~ Robert Casey

I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out. ~ Robert Frost

Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space ... We are destined to explore and colonize the universe. ~ Robert McCall

Most progress is most failure. ~ Robert Browning

nakedness is strictly forbidden.") ~ Robert A. Heinlein

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ~ Robert Hunter

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,
Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,
Here I wander in April
Cold, grey-headed; and still to my
Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,
Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;
Spring, flower-planter in meadows,
Child-conductor in willowy
Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses:
Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity:
O child, happy are children! ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. ~ Robert Reich

My first question is- do you have a name?
"A name? Yes."
"Ah!" said the wolf. It wrote several extensive notes. "And what is that name?"
"George."
"I see," said the wolf. "And how long have you been George?"
"How long? As in, how long have I been alive?"
"oh, were you here in some way before you were alive?" asked the wolf, interested.
"I...don't really know," said George. " I don't think so."
"So you don't know if you were here? Or if you were here before your George-time? Is it possible for you to be here, bu not know it?"
"My what time? no, I mean, I was born, and then they just named me George."
"So you are not George," said the wolf. George is just a name. A word. A propulsion of air modified by the flexing of throat parts."
"Well, I am George, but...yes. Yes, and...no."
"Is it possible that you became George at a later time, having been originally named that thing?" asked the wolf. " What if the naming had been different, would you still be George?"
"I...yes?"
"Really?" breathed the wolf in awe. "This is all so confusing." Yet he seemed very pleased with George's answers. " I don't know how you all do it. It seems so marvelously complex to simply...be. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

The road to Understanding must be walked with bare feet and the path is paved with shards of glass. ~ Robert Palasciano

I dream of things that are not and ask why not. ~ Robert Kennedy

If it is light, leave it white. ~ Robert Regis Dvorak

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. ~ Robert Fulghum

When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing. ~ Robert Pattinson

the book Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, he wrote about how he survived a Nazi concentration camp by creating a Why every day: a reason to live, to try - a reason not to give up. It would have been much easier to give up, Frankl noted, and most did. ~ Robert J. Langone