Abatements Synonym Quotes & Sayings

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Still (very still), at the heart of "literary culture" is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner. Amazingly, people continue to want to read that. — David Shields

I don't even understand life right now. What is going on? — Jamie McGuire

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director. — Orlando Bloom

He was watching you walk to the apartment this morning. I find that a little predatory. Excuse the fuck out of me for wanting him to think you have a guy around. — Jamie McGuire

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue. "The mountains are mighty patient, Buddha-man," I said out loud, and took a drink. — Jack Kerouac

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination. — Bob Hawke

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading. — Miuccia Prada

I want people to feel inspired to reach out and be inclusive and supportive of others in their community who might be facing any kind of challenge, whether it is a health issue or a disability. — Avril Lavigne

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose. — J.K. Rowling

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim. — Albert Camus

His mouth found each of her eyelids, then drifted down her cheek to the corner of her lips. "Don't protest. Just listen to me. I'v thought about this for a long time. Your life is in danger. You've accepted that, and you're willing to chance our love. But I couldn't live with your death at my hands. I can't, Isabella." He kissed her mouth, her soft, pliant lips, drawing strength from her, her endless courage becoming his. — Christine Feehan

I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president. — Joe Biden

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature. — Jeff VanderMeer

I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style. — Sanjaya Malakar