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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

  A. A. Milne

  House, Stories, Thursday

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.18, Egmont UK

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• We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.

  Sonya Sones

  Wall, Kissing, Light

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Winning, Knows

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The corrections”

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• To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Speaking French, Speak, Frenchmen

  Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë (2011). “25 Favorite Novels”, p.5417, Smashbooks

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• I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.

  Mary Pickford

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better.

  Howard Pyle

  Men, Self, Noble Man

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

  A. A. Milne

  Wish, World, Silent

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• Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

  Robin Hobb

  Writing, Your Future, Crossings

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• The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

  Ali Smith

  Goodman

  Ali Smith (2007). “Girl Meets Boy”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.

  Edward Thomas

  Song, Autumn, Dark

  Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

  Thomas Cartwright

  Time, Night, Evil

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• I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

  Maurice Gibb

  Twins, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Winter, Watches, Firsts

  "Jonathan Winters was mad brilliant" by Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

  Frans de Waal

  Humanity, Wish, Wealth

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• Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Kings, Sorry

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• Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !

  Bob Kane

  Eerie, Evil, Criminals

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• If a robin redbreast in a cage
  Puts all heaven in a rage,
  How feels heaven when
  Dies the billionth battery hen?

  Spike Milligan

  Heaven, Batteries, Hens

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• People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Hate, People

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• I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

  Chris Cooper

  Thinking, Dry, Kind

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• Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

  A. A. Milne

  Talking, Waiting, Owl

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.109, Egmont UK

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• You've reached your 60th birthday, Bill
  To the year, the day, the hour
  You've been a lifelong country boy
  Along with Lily, your flower
  And Robin...that's the name of a bird
  And Dawn...that says it all

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Country, Flower

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