Cleveland Abbe Quotes

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

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• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Theatre

• We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • May
  • Financial
  • Management

• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Looking

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Everything

• When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Food
  • Diet

• I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Church

• My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Lived
  • Egypt

• Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Know
  • Best
  • Spirit

• I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Truth
  • True

• I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Done
  • Light

• Carlos: Manly-Man Training Academy, Butch speaking! … OH! Señor Ortiz! Sí, this is Toni's number. ...¿¡De qué estás hablando?! ¡No! I'm not the father! I'm just the babysitter, I swear! ¿Qué?! You want me to marry your daughter? Well okay, but I'm keeping my own name!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Father
  • Training
  • Daughter

• Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Job
  • Service

• It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • She
  • Baby
  • Sun

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

  

  Cleveland Abbe
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Outlive