Robert A. Heinlein citations célèbres
Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais
In a live interview with Walter Cronkite of CBS News, on the day of the first moonwalk (20 July 1969)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume I (1907–1949): Learning Curve (2010)
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 15 “Pie With a Fork”, p. 180
“Gravity’s books have got to balance.”
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 17, “Disaster” (p. 177)
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 16 “P.R.S. Astarte”, p. 195
“Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.”
The Menace from Earth (p. 351)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 75
“Son, suppose you tend to your knitting and I tend to mine.”
Double Star (1956)
“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 473
“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter V : “—a wedding ring is not a ring in my nose—”, p. 41
Source: Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel , (1973), p. 366
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8
“He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.”
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 43)
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564
“Never listen to newscasts. Saves wear and tear on the nervous system.”
Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 2, “South Colony, Mars”, p. 17
“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 74) - Speech given before the destruction of the nuclear-armed satellite Circum-Terra.
“Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.”
Double Star (1956)
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82
“One can’t expect logic from males; they think with their testicles and act from their emotions.”
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXIX : Random Numbers, p. 385
The Long Watch (p. 214)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 153)
Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (p. 61)
