Larry Robinson Convert

Famous quotes containing the words larry, robinson and/or convert:

    “I’ve yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.”
    —Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher)

    “Passion is here a soilure of the wits,
    We’re told, and Love a cross for them to bear;
    Joy shivers in the corner where she knits
    And Conscience always has the rocking-chair,
    Cheerful as when she tortured into fits
    The first cat that was ever killed by Care.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)