Edwin A. Abbott Quotes

Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

Edwin A. Abbott

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• I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Up
  • Love
  • Experience

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.

  

  Karl Marx

• ...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun

• Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Heart
  • Irish

• Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Done
  • Charity

• Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Father

• I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • She
  • Wonder

• The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Poetry

• It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Political
  • Color

• I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • Time
  • Small

• The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Priest

• I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Believe
  • Ability
  • Conscience

• I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Food

• A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Hope
  • Enemy
  • Superhero

• After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Hope
  • Lost
  • Never

• Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Hope
  • Humanity
  • Exist