Top 30 Robert Sawyer Quotes
#1. "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
Charles Dickens
#2. You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you, I wouldn't exist.
Robert J. Sawyer
#4. Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.
Robert Aickman
#5. Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Robert J. Sawyer
#6. Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
Robert J. Sawyer
#7. What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.
Robert Coover
#8. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Robert J. Sawyer
#9. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
Robert J. Sawyer
#11. Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been.
My Mother.
My father.
Rebecca.
Out of site.
Out of mind.
Robert J. Sawyer
#12. The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.
Robert J. Sawyer
#13. It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
Robert J. Sawyer
#14. Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Robert J. Sawyer
#15. The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Robert J. Sawyer
#16. How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
Robert J. Sawyer
#17. A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
Robert J. Sawyer
#18. General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
Robert J. Sawyer
#20. And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?" "Oh, my goodness, yes," said Anna. "He wrote a book you could kill a man with - twelve hundred pages - called A New Kind of Science. It's all about them." "We should totally ask him what he thinks!" Caitlin said.
Robert J. Sawyer
#21. Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work. They put what's in their head on paper long before it's fully formed, and they watch and listen to what they've recorded, zigging and zagging until the right idea emerges.
Robert Keith Sawyer
#22. There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?
Robert J. Sawyer
#23. No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
Robert J. Sawyer
#24. That is fine. Feeling a need to convince others that you are right also is something that comes from religion, I think; I am simply content to know that I am right, even if others do not know it.
Robert J. Sawyer
#25. The two heaviest known substances are neutronium and cartons of books.
Robert J. Sawyer
#28. That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another - that, in fact, has never been observed.
Robert J. Sawyer
#29. Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
Robert J. Sawyer
#30. Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer
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