Edward Abbey Quotes

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

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• I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Boring

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Now

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • Find
  • Priority

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Day
  • See
  • Gloomy

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Only

• Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Stop
  • Woman
  • First

• You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • You
  • Last
  • Predict

• It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Important
  • Know
  • Yourself

• You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • You
  • Air

• If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Success
  • Team
  • Control

• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • End
  • Kings
  • France

• We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.

  

  Anohni
  • Life
  • History
  • Beautiful

• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature