Ableman 1 Quotes & Sayings

An artist in this nuthouse century is like a man running an obstacle race fitted out with all the gadgets of our riotous technology. He gets blown a mile into the air on a jet of liquid helium, shuttles about on little rocket tubes, plunges into the deeps of the ocean, shoots out again a hundred miles into the space while lurid sights and sounds shred his senses. Every year, every month, and 'panoptic' work appears and warps his consciousness into a new shape. Knowledge itself is in a molten, a plasmatic state and what titanic electromagnetic grip of intellect would be required to lock it solid long enough to reach artistic fusion point? The damned language becomes obsolete as it clatters from the typewriter. — Paul Ableman

We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine. — David Zindell

nest and prompt their children to follow them. The chicks were reluctant at first but then — D.A. Stevens

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? — Kate Morton

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover. — Richard St. Barbe Baker

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Choose your battles well. There is no point in launching a fight over some minor matter. Pay your parking tickets, but fight like hell if your land is under threat, if your local farmers' market is being moved or closed, or the open wild land next door is proposed for two hundred condominiums. — Michael Ableman

If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic. — Nicholas Meyer

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you are not serving the Lord, start serving Him, so that you will be a partaker of His blessings — Sunday Adelaja

I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It's always been one of my aspirations. — Michelle Dockery

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things? — Matthew Quick

Tell you what," I said, my eyebrows rising. "You can drive me home if we keep to one topic on the way."
"Your father?" he guessed, and I nodded. I was getting used to this deal-with-a-demon business. — Kim Harrison

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature. — Maggie Gallagher