Dan Abnett Quotes

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.

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• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Honesty

• You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • College
  • Coaching

• I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Possible
  • Go
  • Fast

• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Walk

• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Heads
  • Royal

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Why
  • Want
  • Grief

• Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Reason
  • Better
  • Baseball

• Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Live
  • Man

• In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined, and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the Internet.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Internet
  • Stock

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?

  

  Isaac Asimov

• 'There was only one cadet I ever really hated. Just one name I can think of,' The Boo said. 'That'll make an interesting story for the book, Colonel. Who is the jerk?' I asked. 'It was you, Conroy. Just you. There was something about you that I hated when you first walked into fourth battalion, you worthless bum.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Book
  • Interesting

• And I said in underbreath -All our life is mixed with death, -And who knoweth which is best?And I smiled to think God's greatnessFlowed around our incompleteness, - Round our restlessness, His rest.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Home

• I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Musician
  • Wave
  • Flag

• When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism-with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Church

• The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

  

  Mem Fox
  • Together
  • Reading
  • Emotional

• My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Great
  • Present
  • Study

• We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.

  

  Dan Abnett
  • Broken
  • Pieces
  • Pickup