Weston Abbott Quotes

Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway? ~ Julie Johnson

You're right. You're not a princess
you're Little Red. and I'm the Big Bad Wolf. ~ Julie Johnson

I was alone, for twenty-five years. And I didn't give a shit, because I didn't know what I was missing.
Then, this stubborn, beautiful fucking brunette came barreling into my life and shoved her way through all the shadows. ~ Julie Johnson

We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck. ~ Julie Johnson

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia. ~ Tony Abbott

Weston chuckled, shaking his head. "Sometimes I wonder who's really in charge of this heap." "You are." Steph grinned. "And none of the rest of us want to take your place if you get your dumb ass killed, so bear with us, all right? ~ Evan Currie

All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State. ~ Edwin A. Abbott

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it. ~ Berenice Abbott

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ~ Jack Henry Abbott

A month or so ago, he and his friends had gone to Pizza House for slices after a game and he'd seen her in the kitchen. Her cap pushed back, she was carrying cold trays of glistening dough rounds, and her face had a kind of pink to it, her hips turning to knock the freezer door shut.
I didn't spit on it, Deenie had promised, winking at him from behind the scarlet heat lamps. He'd stood there, arrested. The pizza box hot in his hands. She looked different than at school and especially at home, and she was acting differently. Moving differently.
He couldn't stop watching her, his friends all around him, loud and triumphant, their faces streaked with sweat. ~ Megan Abbott

My advice is that you go and do something that you are really driven to do. I loved to play baseball and, because I loved it, I practiced it. Some of us have limitations, but if you are passionate about something and if you have the drive, then you can accomplish it. ~ Jim Abbott

command was small for so great an invasion, but rather like a mountain torrent sweeping all before it by its impetuous rush. In swift ruin the Persian empire was toppled over, and in the most wonderful series of victories in the history of the world Alexander carried his arms beyond the limits of the known world to the river Jhelum or Hydaspes. ~ W. H. Weston

This is what evolution means
ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater
progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life. ~ Lyman Abbott

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention. ~ Jack Henry Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't. ~ Tony Abbott

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead! ~ Edward Weston

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government. ~ Tony Abbott

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. ~ Grace Abbott

Teachers who are accountable to principals who are, in turn, accountable to school communities are likely to be more professionally 'grounded' and less susceptible to avant garde fashions in curriculum and pedagogy. School ~ Tony Abbott

The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough. ~ Tank Abbott

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. ~ Tony Abbott

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. ~ Edward Weston

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell! ~ Leonard Susskind

Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out and try them on every little while. It's all I can do not to wear them to classes. ~ Jean Webster

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame. ~ Tony Abbott

Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay $5.50 to see a show on Broadway, but they could scrape together $1.00 for a matinee at a burlesque house. ~ Karen Abbott

George Weston, after all was only a man - poor thing - and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. ~ Isaac Asimov

Love. Nightmares. Angels. War. ~ Paula Weston

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them. ~ Karen Abbott

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time. ~ Michael Weston

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval. ~ Edward Weston

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. ~ Michael Weston

If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with. ~ Edwin A. Abbott

You're a killer," she says. The words should hurt me, but they only feel like the truth.
"Yes. And I want to be a killer for you, Ana. ~ Alexis Abbott

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful. ~ Megan Abbott

Thank you." A bright blush stained her cheeks. "For last night. For chasing the monsters away…"

"Anytime. It's kind of my job to protect you."

"A job sounds like you're forced."

"Nah," I argued. "Saying it's my job just means it's my identity in a way. You know how people go, 'Hey, I'm Rick. I'm a janitor.'" I smiled. "Now I can say, hey I'm Weston, and I kill monsters on behalf of my very sexy girlfriend so she can sleep at night. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin. ~ Abbott Eliot Kittredge

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache. ~ Jeff Abbott

By telling me, you trapped me," I say through my teeth. "By telling you," she whispers, rain still glistening on her, "I was free. ~ Megan Abbott

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them. ~ Edward Weston

The event had every promise of happiness for her friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship ~ Jane Austen

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known. ~ Edward Weston

Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something - anything - to begin. ~ Megan Abbott

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone. ~ Jacob Abbott

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story. ~ Robert Paul Weston

To illustrate: to walk ten miles in an enclosed space of ten feet is not really movement. There are not ten miles of space, only time. ~ Jack Henry Abbott

It's enraging, recalling a dozen, a hundred, a thousand times in my life a man telling me to relax, be a team player, stop worrying so much, take it easy and roll with the punches. We're all on the same team. ~ Megan Abbott