Edward Abbey Quotes

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Edward Abbey

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• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Results
  • Arrive

• Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Connection
  • Trouble

• For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Truth

• At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Up
  • Beginning

• I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important

• I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • School

• It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

  

  Jason Day
  • Learning

• Diversity is enormously important to me.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Important
  • Diversity

• My life style in a sense is kind of private.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Life
  • Style

• I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

  

  Nell Newman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Career
  • Single
  • Amazing

• I think my issues with the Internet surround people who become 'overnight celebrities.' It's like, really? You put something on YouTube, and they Auto-Tuned it, and now you're a star, and you have a TV show, and you have a record deal.

  

  Kim Fields
  • People
  • Star
  • Auto

• I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

  

  Andy Serkis

• The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell-'Abandon hope, ye who enter here.'

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Hope

• I'm a Brad Pitt fan as an actor. I don't necessarily think he's good-looking. If I tell you guys who I think are cute, they're lame people. Like, I think Harry Connick Jr. is so cute. In 'Hope Floats' or 'P.S. I Love You,' isn't he the cutest? Yeah, he is. I think Gerard Butler is 'Oh, my God.'

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • God
  • Character

• Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Seems
  • Benefits
  • Superstitions

• So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Guy
  • You
  • Play

• I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Feeling
  • Fear
  • Running

• I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Snake