Abbey Quotes
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Abbey Quotes & Sayings
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I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It sounds like you aren't used to having something so powerful between your legs," Abbey said. "Maybe you should let me drive.
— Shawn Keenan
I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.
— Abbey Clancy
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
— Edward Abbey
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
— Edward Abbey
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
— Edward Abbey
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
— Edward Abbey
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
— Edward Abbey
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
— Edward Abbey
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
— Edward Abbey
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
— Edward Abbey
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
— Edward Abbey
Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.
— Edward Abbey
Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
— Edward Abbey
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
— Edward Abbey
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
— Edward Abbey
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
— Edward Abbey
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
— Edward Abbey
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
— Edward Abbey
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
— Abbey Lee Kershaw
Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you can you really be in love with James? — Jane Austen
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
— Edward Abbey
People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.
— Michelle Dockery
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
— Edward Abbey
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.Abbey Drake — Christine Feehan
Poetry even bad poetry
may be our final hope. — Edward Abbey
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
— Edward Abbey
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
— Edward Abbey
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
— Lynn Abbey
As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
— Edward Abbey
I actually don't watch much TV, but my goal is to watch 'Downton Abbey.' I want to catch up on the series ... that's like my style.
— Kelly Rutherford
Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
— Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
— Edward Abbey
'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.
— Phyllis Logan
How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
— Edward Abbey
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
— Edward Abbey
I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
— Abbey Clancy
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
— Edward Abbey
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
— Edward Abbey
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
— Edward Abbey
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
— Edward Abbey
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
— Lynn Abbey
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
— Edward Abbey
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
— Abbey Lincoln
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
— Allison Williams
A world without open country would be universal jail.
— Edward Abbey
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
— Jane Austen
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
— Edward Abbey
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
— Edward Abbey
Wilderness. The word itself is music.
— Edward Abbey
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
— Edward Abbey
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
— Edward Abbey
My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
— Abbey Lee Kershaw
Why this cult of wilderness? ... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
— Edward Abbey
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
— Edward Abbey
I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
— Abbey Clancy
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
— Edward Abbey
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
— Edward Abbey
Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.
— Edward Abbey
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
— Edward Abbey
