M. H. Abrams Quotes

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

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• I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Military

• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Country
  • Much

• I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Amazing
  • Never
  • Jewelry

• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Country
  • Living
  • Earn

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Matter

• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Up
  • Age
  • Acting

• I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Follow

• I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Age
  • Small

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Done
  • Guy

• I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Team
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home...

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Country
  • Home
  • Travel

• I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Money
  • Fans
  • Littles

• My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

  

  George Benson
  • Mother
  • Small
  • Player

• The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Houses
  • Styles
  • Tunes

• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Country
  • Age
  • Amazing