Abascal Quotes & Sayings

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it? — Nicole Krauss

You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman. — Bonnie McFarlane

The Sunday Tidings, which had for some years been pursing a policy of intellectual sensationalism, had never found it easy to maintain its supply of material. The stuff of mere emotional sensationalism, as used by its cheaper and less dignified contemporaries, lay thickly all around, easily malleable into shapes attractive to the constant human passions. Intellectual sensationalism, however, was a much more tricky business. In addition to avoiding the suggestion of sensationalism for sensationalism's sake, it required knowledge, research, careful timing, and, if possible, some literary ability. Inevitably, therefore, its policy was subject to lamentable gaps during which it could find nothing topical on its chosen level to disclose. — John Wyndham

Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments. — Patrick Cockburn

I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you ... Oh, wait, that is our current system. — Dave Barry

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up. — William Shatner

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. — Daniel Keyes

The one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point. — Augusten Burroughs

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer. — Arthur Ganson

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break. — Elizabeth George Speare

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland. — Jinato Hu

Parody is homage gone sour. — Brendan Gill

What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard. — Sharon Cooper

I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character. — Tamra Davis