Lynn Abbey Quotes

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Lynn Abbey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 18, 1948

Topics

HistoryPastWritingReadingBooks

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

John Cleese

SportsLostNowLondonAlwaysBeat

How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.

John Salazar

TimeFightWarCareTake CareYou

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Alphonse Karr

MomentRegretUncertaintyRealityUs

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Simon Cowell

GreatDayCollegeNightSomeoneOld

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor

SituationProductUpJumpingSell

We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history.

Tony Evans

HistoryValueHeavenSystemMove

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

Tom Chatfield

WordsWorldNewInfiniteKindAgent

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

Michael Moorcock

GoodMeKindStructureSenseMakes

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.

Jonathan Toews

MeHockeyThinkPlayYoungWhy

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

LifeInspirationalWaitingGoAccept

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

Douglas Wilder

BlackWillPresidentFirstWho

I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th Street. Three people showed up. One of them was an agent. It was my first agent.

Bobby Cannavale

PolicePeopleActingPlayStreetUp

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