Edward Abbey Quotes

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

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• I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Action

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Dinner

• There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Funny
  • Awards
  • Host

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Feel
  • Speak
  • Performance

• My profession has helped me to grow up.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Grow
  • Profession
  • Helped

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Positive

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

  

  Epicurus
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

  

  Anthony Braxton
  • Home

• I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Way
  • Step
  • British

• I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

  

  Gene Pitney
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Football

• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Water