Jack Henry Abbott Quotes

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Jack Henry Abbott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 21, 1944 - February 10, 2002

Topics

DeepInnocentNeverInsideWeakUs

I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.

Joe Bonamassa

GuitarYouSoundEverythingHeadUp

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

Joel Salatin

FlyGrassEatChickensCowsShorten

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

John Gregory Dunne

RoadSpeechBadI CanUpWould

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Maya Angelou

MyselfKnowUpWhoLikeWaking Up

The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

LifeOpportunityTruthMyselfFool

I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me.

Tom Kenny

MeWorldCartoonVoicesJustLike

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

Christine Quinn

MoneyPoliticsBikeReligionDinner

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

Cindy Margolis

DreamsManMarried

I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.

Brantley Gilbert

HimTwoFiredTrainerHadWeeks

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

BelieveNothingInsideSomethingWho

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

Peter O'Toole

GreatFunLovedDoingYearClass

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

Nikki Sixx

HistoryStartUpSomethingUsMuch

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