Abbie Quotes & Sayings

Oh, why couldn't they know? Why did an old woman seem always to have been old? Abbie was back on the knoll near the Big Woods, singing ... her head thrown back ... her thick hair curling and rippling over her creamy white shoulders. Why couldn't they understand that once she had kept tryst with Youth? Why didn't they realize that some day, they, too must hold rendezvous with Age? — Bess Streeter Aldrich

She floated across the boundary of realms, nothing more than a human shell. She existed but only as a shadow of who she once was. — Abbie Chandler

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know? — Abbie Cornish

I had an amazing childhood. — Abbie Cornish

And so they discussed it seriously, Abbie who knew that one may laugh with a child but at him, and Laura, who knew that Grandma was one unfailing source of sympathy and understanding in a world which was beginning to be critical. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was. — Abbie Cornish

I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's. — Abbie Cornish

I've got heaps of dreams. — Abbie Cornish

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades. — Abbie Cornish

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. — Abbie Hoffman

Everybody has their secrets; everybody has their dark side. — Demitria Lunetta

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time. — Abbie Cornish

You threatened to tell his girlfriend he'd been involved with you? (Hunter)
No, I threatened to tell Brittany he made a pass at me if he didn't help. He's a slimeball I wouldn't let touch my dead philodendron. (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness. — Abbie Hoffman

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. — Abbie Hoffman

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman

I don't see the point in working just to be working. — Abbie Cornish

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it! — Abbie Hoffman

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere. — Abbie Cornish

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back. — Abbie Cornish

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list. — Abbie Hoffman

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock? — Abbie Hoffman

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. — Abbie Hoffman

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? — Abbie Hoffman

Sacred Cows make the BEST Hamburger — Abbie Hoffman

Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. — Abbie Hoffman

There are so many different ways to develop a character - physically, mentally, spiritually and all of that - but the research was really beautiful. I love the process of finding characters because, in the beginning, it's really unknown, and then, by the end of it, all of a sudden, you're walking and talking like that character. — Abbie Cornish

Do you realize you could have been killed? (Hunter)
No, that was just a practice run. I'm thinking about trying it again because it was so. Much. Fun! What the hell do you think? (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him, - and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one, - Somewhere. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair. — Abbie Hoffman

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait. — Abbie Cornish

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer. — Abbie Cobb

Attending a snooty party meant wearing shoes designed by sadistic trolls and dressing to compete with women born to make fashion statements.' (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. — Abbie Hoffman

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning! — Abbie Hoffman

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom. — Abbie Cornish

All my girlhood I always planned to do something big ... something constructive. It's queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is young. I thought I would sing before big audiences or paint lovely pictures or write a splendid book. I always had that feeling in me of wanting to do something worth while. And just think, Laura ... now I am eighty and I have not painted nor written nor sung."
"But you've done lots of things, Grandma. You've baked bread ... and pieced quilts ... and taken care of your children."
Old Abbie Deal patted the young girl's hand. "Well ... well ... out of the mouths of babes. That's just it, Laura, I've only baked bread and pieced quilts and taken care of children. But some women have to, don't they? ... But I've dreamed dreams, Laura. All the time I was cooking and patching and washing, I dreamed dreams. And I think I dreamed them into the children ... and the children are carrying them out ... doing all the things I wanted to and couldn't. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. — Abbie Hoffman

But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You're sharp and you've got pluck. Don't waste it. — William Ritter

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. — Abbie Cornish

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. — Abbie Hoffman

Ou just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point. — Abbie Hoffman

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist. — Abbie Cornish

* If your reality doesn't match where you want to be, you need to change your beliefs and get out of your comfort zone. — Abbie Widin

A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles. — Abbie Cornish

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving. — Abbie Cornish

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. — Abbie Hoffman

When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney. — Abbie Cornish

In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick! — Abbie Hoffman

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. — Abbie Hoffman

She thought of her younger days, - the gleam which seemed always ahead, - of the vague allure which accomplishing something in the arts had always held for her. And now she was nearly fifty and she was not to know the fruition of any of those hopes.
"Oh Will, I am so disappointed," she said to that invisible comrade who was only spirit and memory. "I can only feel those things, - not do them."
Isn't motherhood, itself, an accomplishment?
She knew that she made her own answer, and yet it gave her a sense of satisfaction and peace. Will might said it. It sounded like him.
"But I've made so many mistakes ... Will ... even in that."
You are a good mother, Abbie-girl."
Yes, it gave her a sense of peace and comfort. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body. — Abbie Cornish

What are you, like a rent-a-white-knight? (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory. — Mark Kurlansky

Responding with eyes filled with introspection and a soft, slow voice, Cayla confessed, "I don't. I don't have all the answers. But I cling desperately to the Hand of the One who does. Because sometimes that's just the best you can do.""
"Come What May"-Cayla to Abbie- — Laura A. Diaz

And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people? — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. — Abbie Hoffman

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful. — Abbie Hoffman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. — Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. — Abbie Hoffman

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. — Abbie Hoffman

Fantasy is the only truth. — Abbie Hoffman

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. — Abbie Hoffman

I've had some good times, had some bad. Took some lumps. Scored some points. Half-way through life, at 43, I still say, 'go for broke.' No government, no FBI, no judge, no jailer is ever gonna make me say 'uncle.' Now, as then, let the game continue. I bet my stake on freedom's call; I'll play these cards with no regrets. — Abbie Hoffman

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less. — Abbie Hoffman

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad. — Abbie Cornish

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home. — Abbie Hoffman

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life. — LaVyrle Spencer

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers. — Abbie Hoffman

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good. — Abbie Hoffman

Love was a thing to be treasured, not tossed around from one person to the next. — Abbie Duncan

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce. — Abbie Hoffman

Wishing is for things you can't get on your own. Wanting is for things you can. — Abbie Zanders

Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children's books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic. We also love "Tacky the Penguin", and I love "Guji Guji" - all because they teach great life lessons without being teachy. — Abbie Schiller

Don't yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument. — Abbie Cornish

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid. — Abbie Cornish

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. — Abbie Hoffman

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way. — Abbie Hoffman

A case could be made that even the shift into R&D on information technologies and medicine was not so much a reorientation towards market-driven consumer imperatives, but part of an all-out effort to follow the technological humbling of the Soviet Union with total victory in the global class war: not only the imposition of absolute U.S. military dominance overseas, but the utter rout of social movements back home. The technologies that emerged were in almost every case the kind that proved most conducive to surveillance, work discipline, and social control. Computers have opened up certain spaces of freedom, as we're constantly reminded, but instead of leading to the workless utopia Abbie Hoffman or Guy Debord imagined, they have been employed in such a way as to produce the opposite effect. — David Graeber

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti. — Abbie Cornish

Fucking sympathy. Give him anger. Give him fear. Give him fuzzy-assed unicorns that shit glitter and gold-- just don't give him sympathy. Sympathy sucked a giant sack. — Abbie Roads

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. — Abbie Hoffman

What's got your jockstrap in a wad? (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that. — Abbie Cornish

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going. — Abbie Hoffman

It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had. — Abbie Cobb

She made a suck-bad prisoner of war wanting to sleep with the enemy.' (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He felt the imaginary weight of shackles press against his soul. He bound himself to her once more. — Abbie Chandler

How do you do that? (Abbie)
What, sweetheart? (Hunter)
Make me crazy to beat you one minute and crazy to love you the next. (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then again, if you opinions on women prevent me from carrying out my work, then I would be more than happy to suggest a place for you to stuff them... You're the bos... but YOU seem to be the brains. It's Abigail Rook, yes? Mind if I call you Abbie? Lovely. - Nellie — William Ritter

Apart from the obvious psychological problems, he's the perfect man. — Charlotte Stein

Borys had volunteered to save Hunter the trouble. Hunter had threatened Borys the trouble of breathing if (he) got near Abbie when she had no clothes on.' (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesn't know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck up, self-righteous cow doesn't even care because now she's just all ooooo, Peter I love you! Well I don't love Peter and he's a jerk. Let's go bust down the door!" She sat back and calmly pushed her hair from her face, "Now would you get me a soda? — Gwenn Wright

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure. — Abbie Cornish

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks. — Abbie Hoffman

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all. — Abbie Hoffman

Go to sleep now, Abbie. I'll go to sleep with you, and dream my blackbird is gone, too. You looked up at me, and it went away. For a little while, I swear, it went away. — Charlotte Stein

The sudden pounding in her chest, the trembling of her hands, the inflation of her lungs. It was exactly like being alive. It was reanimating the dead. — Abbie Chandler

I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for. — Abbie Cornish