Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

When the field is clear, the reports all seen, When the lock sighs shut, when the lights wink green, When the check-off's done, when it's time to pray, When the captain nods, when she blasts away Hear the jets! Hear them snarl at your back When you're stretched on the rack; Feel your ribs clamp your chest, Feel your neck grind its rest. Feel the pain in your ship, Feel her strain in their grip. Feel her rise! Feel her drive! Straining steel, come alive, On her iets!

Her face lit up. "What's wrong with this little stand of trees?" "Mmm. Yes. Now.

He was staring over the bulge of the Earth at a curved horizon; he vas seeing the Earth as round.

The Scientologists, of course, have had to fight for their rights many times;

Whores perform the same function as priests, Ira, but far more thoroughly.

Women are more rugged than men; they have to be.

He was staring over the bulge of the Earth at a curved horizon; he was seeing the Earth as round.

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

Boss, I keep telling you: it's impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he's eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he'll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.) Jake

It is easy to panic and either open a chute too soon and become a sitting duck (do ducks really sit?—if so, why?) or fail to open it and break your ankles, likewise backbone and skull.

a man can get a reputation as a sparkling conversationalist simply by letting the other man do all the talking.

revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science only a few are competent to practice. It depends on correct organization and, above all, on communications. Then, at the proper moment in history, they strike. Correctly organized and properly timed it is a bloodless coup.

Aussies and Enzees and black fellows and marys and Malays and Tamil and name it.

Well, we're on the Moon.

What do you expect us to do, gospazha? Throw rocks at Warden?" Wyoh smiled. "Yes, we could throw rocks.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.' Do

Wherever there is power and mass to manipulate, Man can live.

I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal—a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.

One night I had been forced to reason with my darling; Hilda felt that I should lead our little band. I was oldest

It's not me, it's us. If anything happens to us, I want it to be the same thing. All right, he said seriously. From now on, we stick together. I'll handcuff us together, if you'd rather. You won't need to. I'm going to hang on.

Sharpie, I thought you liked Star Trek?" "I do. But I've seen five years of it and we've got our own Star Trek now.

I had an unsettling feeling that I had been completely mistaken as to the very nature of the world I was in, as if every part of it was something wildly different from what it appeared to be - like discovering that your own mother isn't anyone you've ever seen before, but a stranger in a rubber mask.

Your computers must be three-phase A.C.

I remembered hearing Dad say: "Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!