Edward Abbey Quotes

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Edward Abbey

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• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fear

• I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Different
  • Action
  • Fighting

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Car
  • Better
  • Exercise

• It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.

  

  Carl Orr
  • Important
  • Study
  • Use

• Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • Golden
  • Supreme
  • Continents

• Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  

  Clive James
  • People
  • Sports
  • Shoes

• Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Freedom