R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.”
“Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.”
Source: The Boys of Summer
“Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Robinson had thoroughly enjoyed her evening at the opera. Her only previous experience had been a performance of Wagner, to which the Assistant Commissioner, an avid Wagnerian, had taken her a year before. It was a strange but admirable British characteristic, she had thought at the time, how little antagonism was directed against the great artistic creations of the enemy, even of Richard Wagner, the great idol of Hitler.”
Source: The French Spy
“Roblox has 50 million daily users, including many young people who may not be able to book a hotel room themselves (yet) but who can influence their parents’ travel decisions.”
“ROBLOX JAILBREAK IS AWESOME!”
“Roblox Returns Rows Or Blocks Inna Setup, The Standard Normal Distribution Returns The Ordered Set Inna SORT.”
“RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?”
“RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.”
“Robopaths are afflicting our world in two ways: 1) autistic worshipers of scientism have ruined the academic world and turned it into a dull factory mass-producing narrow-minded, ultra-specialized drones and drudges that can barely communicate, and never understand the big picture, and 2) conservative, tradition-directed right wingers that robotically carry out the commands of the elites, like Abraham carrying out the order of the ultimate psychopathic elitist, Jehovah. In the West, it’s always right wing cops, soldiers and “patriots” that gun people down and mindlessly and slavishly obey orders. They are “Milgram” humans, totally obedient to right wing authority figures. “God” – the cosmic authoritarian Father Archetype – is the supreme right wing wet dream.”
Source: Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
“Robot Boy
Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life.
They were a normal, happy husband and wife.
One day they got news that made Mr. Smith glad.
Mrs. Smith would would be a mom
which would make him the dad!
But something was wrong with their bundle of joy.
It wasn't human at all,
it was a robot boy!
He wasn't warm and cuddly
and he didn't have skin.
Instead there was a cold, thin layer of tin.
There were wires and tubes sticking out of his head.
He just lay there and stared,
not living or dead.
The only time he seemed alive at all
was with a long extension cord
plugged into the wall.
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
"What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"
The doctor said gently,
"What I'm going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender."
The Smith's lives were now filled
with misery and strife.
Mrs. Smith hated her husband,
and he hated his wife.
He never forgave her unholy alliance:
a sexual encounter
with a kitchen appliance.
And Robot Boy
grew to be a young man.
Though he was often mistaken
for a garbage can.”
“Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.”
“Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear”
“Robotic vacuums can clean better than conventional vacuums.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.”
“Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.”
“Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.”
“Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself.”
“Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.”
“Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp
when they should kiss
and they're none too keen
on having things shoved inside them...
It's not a robot
until you put a girl inside. Sometimes
I feel like that.
A junkyard
the Company forgot to put a girl in.”
Source: Melancholy of Mechagirl
“Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.”
“Robots cannot be injured or killed in the line of work, and can be used in situations far too dangerous for human risk. Robots are more hygienic and deliver a finished product at a fraction of the time it takes a human. Faster output leads to increased sales. No matter how cheap human labour may become, buying highly skilled robotics is still cheaper as one pays only once.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.”
“Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.”
Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“Robots equipped with software can be designed to do repetitive jobs. All that you need in a factory is a set of dials, an expert, and a dog to keep the expert awake. We will be moving shortly to the next stage to robots with artificial intelligence who can "think."”
“Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.”
“Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?”
“Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.”
Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
“Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.”
“Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.”
“Robots stem from (human) Fantasy – what they learn, becomes their Reality – so that they may develop their own Fantasy.”
“Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.”
“Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.”
“Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.”
“Robots will one day rule mankind.”
“Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.”
“Robots... I think that is a hot topic.”
“Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.”
“Roby thought he should get “dibs” on Natalia because he claimed her first, that’s what he was arguing. I’m not convinced it works that way. Natalia has dibs on herself, that’s what I think.”
Source: This Boy
“Roby was honest in a kind way. If I was being stupid, he told me. But he also talked me up, telling me my fashion sense was dope and that I had good taste in music.”
Source: This Boy
“Robyn Hartford, would you like to spend these first snow moments with me?"
"I am spending them with you."
"Not like this." He takes a step back and extends his palm my way. "Share this first snow dance with me."
Isn't he romantic?
"I'll have to warn you that I'm not a good dancer."
"Liar," he whispers, inching closer. "I've heard you blast the music almost every morning and watched you dance with Milo while cleaning the house."
I gasp and sign rapidly. "You've been spying on me?"
Era rolls his eyes. "It's called admiring the view."
My smile is wider than Texas when I place my hand in his palm and allow him to spin me around in the snow.”
Source: My December Balcony Neighbor
“Robyn hit me with her worst: the cool, calm anger of someone who would have no problem sneaking pink hair dye into your shampoo.”
Source: Match Me If You Can
“Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.”
“Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?" Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon”
Source: Cut
“Rochester became a magnet for African Americans in the twentieth century, one of many northern industrial cities that blacks flocked to during their six-decade-long Great Migration from the rural South. From 1950 to 1960, Rochester's total population had declined slightly, from about 332,000 to 319,000. But its black population had risen appreciably over the same period, tripling to nearly 24,000. Those who'd come to Smugtown were hungry for a better life. What they encountered upon their arrival, however, was mainly disappointment. Mirroring trends found across the country, many blacks in Rochester were forced to live in substandard housing as whites fled the urban core. The city's power structure remained almost exclusively white. And many blacks struggled to find decent jobs. Even though the unemployment rate in Rochester had fallen to about 2 percent in the summer of 1964, 14 percent of blacks were counted as without work. The big Kodak dollar and the lawn sprinklers of the suburbs have seemed both tantalizingly near and hopelessly far to the inner-city man," said an African American barber.”
Source: The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”
“Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.”
“Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.”