Abel Stevens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
-
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
-
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
-
It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
-
Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
-
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
-
I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
-
My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
-
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
-
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
-
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
-
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
-
As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.
-
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
-
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
-
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
-
When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
-
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
-
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
-
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
-
Genius can never despise labour.
