Abarat Quotes

#1. Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things.
Clive Barker, Abarat

Cornelia Funke

#2. Believe me, when I say;
There are no two powers
That command the soul.
One is God
The other is the tide.
-Anon
From the novel Abarat

Clive Barker

#3. I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Clive Barker

#4. Witch, do this for me,
Find me a moon
made of longing.
Then cut it sliver thin,
and having cut it,
hang it high
above my beloved's house,
so that she may look up
tonight
and see it,
and seeing it, sigh for me
as I sigh for her,
moon or no moon.

Clive Barker

#5. I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

Clive Barker

#6. I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.

Tommy Bolin

#7. Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

Sam Trammell

#8. Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ...

Clive Barker

#9. I do believe that clean air, clean water, and wild mountains and old forests are our birthrights; that a wild and healthy landscape is, or should be, a constitutional right, a freedom, to be protected and celebrated. And as with any right, there is an attendant responsibility. I

Rick Bass

#10. No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#11. Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

Max Reger

#12. Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

T. S. Eliot

#13. We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

Teju Cole

#14. You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.

Clive Barker

#15. To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

Berthold Auerbach

#16. Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

Clive Barker

#17. I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

Donald Trump

#18. When a man says he wants to meet a girl with a sense of humor, he means one who will laugh at everything he says while her breasts jiggle.

Cheri Oteri