Abdiquer Def Quotes & Sayings

the soul has words as petals — Edmond Jabes

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. — Tippi Hedren

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything. — Rumi

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other. — Haile Selassie

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid. — Abraham Lincoln

It is a fact, indeed, that most of
the great teachers of mankind have been not writers
but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates,
the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of
Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I
remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist
who invented Socrates — Jorge Luis Borges

A fucking pint-sized warrior. — Tillie Cole

You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens? — Morgan Spurlock

No woman has ever killed a man while he was washing dishes. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichizo moaned, suffered and died, I cannot bear the monotonous sound of the dark sea gnawing at the shore. Behind the depressing silence of this sea, the silence of God....the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent. — Shusaku Endo

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. — Richard Dean Anderson

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to. — Amy Hardie