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

• I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Son

• When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Energy

• There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn't want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Music
  • Important
  • Black

• For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

  

  John Thorn
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Winning

• As you hope to prove your own great value to the state, and having proved it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a hope that I shall be the supreme power over you, if I am able to prove my own great value to you.

  

  Plato
  • Great
  • Power
  • Hope

• 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