Robert Anson Heinlein nejznámější citáty
Robert Anson Heinlein citáty a výroky
„Motýli nejsou hmyz. Jsou to samohybné květiny.“
Originál: (en) Butterflies are not insects. They are self propelled flowers.
Zdroj: [Heinlein, Robert Anson, 1988, The cat who walks through walls: a comedy of manners, Ace Books, 369, angličtina]
„Básník, který čte své verše na veřejnosti, mívá obvykle i další hrozné zlozvyky.“
Originál: (en) A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Zdroj: [Baen, Jim, 1988, New Destinies, Svazek 6, Baen Books, 63, angličtina]
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
„Úmrtnost máme stejnou jako všichni ostatní - jedno úmrtí na osobu, dřív nebo později.“
Zdroj: Kniha Tunel do nebes
Zdroj: Kniha Hvězdná pěchota
Robert Anson Heinlein: Citáty anglicky
“Remember, though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp—provided it’s loaded.”
Zdroj: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 1, “The Marching Hordes” (p. 14)
“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
Zdroj: Time Enough for Love
“God created men to test the souls of women.”
Zdroj: Job: A Comedy of Justice
“I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”
Zdroj: Time Enough for Love
“Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”
Zdroj: Time Enough for Love
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
Zdroj: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 235)
“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Varianta: I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land
“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land
“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
Zdroj: Between Planets
“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”
Zdroj: Starship Troopers
“I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.”
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land
“To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”
Zdroj: Starship Troopers
“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
Zdroj: Time Enough for Love
“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.”
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”
Glory Road (1963)
Kontext: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.