Abalones Quotes

#1. San Francisco is a city that requires a fine pair of legs, a city of cliffs misnamed as hills, honeycombed with a fine webbing of showy houses that cling to the slanted streets with the fierceness of abalones.

Pat Conroy

#2. My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

Wayne Wonder

#3. I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Edith Wharton

#4. You know what we call you? Bitch Spice, Burtch Spice, Slut Spice and Stupid Spice.'
Thomas Mackee says this

Melina Marchetta

#5. If you want to learn, focus 95 percent of learning from the best in your industry, craft, or discipline. If you want to teach, focus 95 percent on the people who are not the best to learn how to help the 95 percent who wants to learn.

Ben Tolosa

#6. Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

Sumiko Tan

#7. The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Plato

#8. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of the pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up.(quoting C.S. Lewis)

E.J. Kirk

#9. The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#10. All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

Method Man

#11. Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

Jasper Fforde

#12. He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

Charles Finch

#13. I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

Platon

#14. A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Bruce Lee

#15. You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Amy Heckerling