M. H. Abrams Quotes

It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Thought
  • Husband

• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Dinosaur

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Home
  • New York
  • Walk

• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Technology
  • Judgment
  • Myth

• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • May
  • History
  • Three

• Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Trust
  • Going

• There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Done
  • Marriage

• There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Voices
  • Layering

• I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Years

• BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Body

• We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Home

• An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Book
  • War
  • Opinion

• Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People

• The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People

• One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Work
  • Live
  • Action

• If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Great
  • Player

• I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.

  

  Allen West
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Black

• Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

  

  John Maeda
  • Good
  • Design

• We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want . . . some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.

  

  Don Marquis
  • May
  • Age
  • Perfect

• We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.

  

  Christophe Lemaitre
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Clothes

• It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.

  

  M. H. Abrams