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• She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Cat, Grandmother

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

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• So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dead Poets Society, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.187, Callisto Media Inc

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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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• It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Voice

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

  Gayle King

  Mother, Morning, America

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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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• 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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• When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Roles, Actors

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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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• Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

  Janette Rallison

  Real, Robin Hood, Hood

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  New York, Cities, People

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Autumn, Blue, Flames

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

  John Burroughs

  Cheer, Color, Bird

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.

  Hayley Williams

  Song, Lasts

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• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  Vincent Cassel

  People, Looks, Robin Hood

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• And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

  Shepard Smith

  Coward, Today, Reason

  "Fox News' Shepard Smith Apologizes For Comments About Robin Williams' Suicide" by David Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. August 12, 2014.

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• I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

  Imelda Marcos

  Done, Alive, Robin Hood

  Fortune, 1979.

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