Abducting Abby Quotes & Sayings

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them. — Gloria Feldt

I am attended by doctors, everywhere I am attended by doctors who inform me of my own interests. — Virginia Woolf

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages. — Richard Stallman

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them. — Madonna Ciccone

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'. — Gideon Haigh