Abernathys Cycles Quotes & Sayings

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. — Aly Khan

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work. — Douglas Conant

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. — Marcello Malpighi

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection. — Warren Farrell

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. — Sherwood Anderson

MARG: You are so close.
STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents. — Thomas Pynchon

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime. — Kinky Friedman

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school. — Jenna Fischer

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity. — Rick Warren

Google has a great product. They've built a great business. — Chad Hurley

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind. — Mark Haddon

People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding. — Romeo Miller

Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has presence; but it always yields a picture - no matter whether good or bad. That's all the theory. It's no good. I once took some small photographs and then smeared them with paint. That partly resolved the problem, and it's really good - better than anything I could ever say on the subject. — Gerhard Richter