Megan Abbott Quotes

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Technology
  • Wealth

• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Time
  • Death
  • Stop

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• I'm a big Stephen King fan.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • King
  • Big
  • Stephen King

• Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Beginning

• But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Ideas
  • Reflection
  • Class

• I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Style
  • Like

• I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Rich
  • Fascination

• Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Men
  • Women
  • Past

• Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • Funny
  • Beginning

• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Men
  • Understanding

• Security, freedom, dignity, if we had these three we could say that it has been worth while being born into this world and I would like all the young people of Burma and young people all over the world to be able to feel that it was right that they have been born into this world.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• You should be watching 'White Collar' because it's a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Character

• I am very happy. Extremely, blissfully so. Even in my pain, I'm happy. I like crying. It makes me feel alive. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. Not that I'm welcoming tribulation, but I find that it is beneficial.

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Opportunity
  • Kind
  • Pain

• Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • True
  • Freedom

• I don't believe that the economy has changed people's thinking politically in Alberta. However, obviously we elected a brand new government for the first time, some people say, in 44 years. It's actually the first time in over 70 years, because the previous government, prior to the PCs, was really just PCs with a different name. And I think what that did, it doesn't suddenly mean that Tom Mulcair is going to win a whack of seats here in Alberta, but I think it did open Albertans' eyes to the fact that, you know, something different is possible and we can do something different.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.

  

  Warren Kole
  • College
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Remember
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

  

  Megan Abbott