Lazarus Long Quotes

#1. If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.
Lazarus Long.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. She clutched him, her fingers digging in like she needed to gather parts of him to act as her own second skin for the rest of her life.

Melina Marchetta

#4. So much has been said between them that is is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.

Hilary Mantel

#5. The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. With 'Girls' ... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

Adam Driver

#7. Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. How does one grow up?" I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, "By thinking.

May Sarton

#9. If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

Paul Bocuse

#10. If people are coming to work excited ... if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly ... if they're having fun ... if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

Robert Townsend

#11. Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein