Able Quotes - Page 80

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.