Quotes for All
One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted – One need not be a House – The Brain – has Corridors – surpassing Material Place – Far safer, of a Midnight – meeting External Ghost – Than an Interior – Confronting – That cooler – Host. Far safer, through an Abbey – gallop … Read more
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989) Edward Abbey
The school was nothing but reminiscence – of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else’s past. Edmund White
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn’t just impressive. It’s almost impossible. But here we are. David Bianculli
You can’t turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It’s against the rules. –Abbey Drake Christine Feehan
Abbey, Sarah said, life is to be lived. If you’re living, you’re going to stumble along the way. All the time? Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn’t above using my gift for revenge. None of you did … Read more
I mean, you can’t walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won’t happen – it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it’s enormous. Bruce Oldfield
your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains. Brian Jacques
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it. Brian Jacques
Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, … Read more