Robert Nelson Quotes

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.

Don’t take the wrong side of the argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.

Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

I really believe I'm right. So, tell me, where am I wrong?

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.