"I sit up straight and do the first……" — Robin Sloan
"I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message."
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34 Quotes by Robin Sloan
Robin Sloan has 34 quotes on this site.
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America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
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Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence…
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...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now,…
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Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her…
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But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I…
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I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth.…
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If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.
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After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember…
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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the…
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You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all…
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Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life…
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Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.
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More Emergencies Quotes
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have…
— Bjork
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If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone…
— Bono
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
— Bono
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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in…
— Dick Cheney
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It's absolutely the wrong signal, I think, to those who have entered this country legally or those who may be…
— Elizabeth Dole
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There are nearly 1 million Americans who visit the emergency room each year because of dental pain at a cost…
— Miles O'Brien
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
— Natalie Goldberg
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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