Abramson Senior Quotes & Sayings

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right. — Nick Kroll

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. — George Berkeley

What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it. — William Boyd

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket. — Philipp Meyer

Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions. — Thomas Keating

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau

She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee. — Tom Robbins

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers. — Baruch Fischhoff

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset. — Evan Thomas

When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible. — Hanya Yanagihara

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that. — Hugh Jackman

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next. — Seth