Abhorrrence Quotes

#1. In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

Ellen Glasgow

#2. I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Dave Hickey

#3. Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Elizabeth Wein

#4. The Past
the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf
the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Walt Whitman

#5. If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

Philippa Perry

#6. The truth is, no strong man takes advantage of a woman's vulnerability. It is a trait of the weak.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#7. I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but other African-American players. Hopefully, they pick up a bat and a ball and go out there and play.

Dontrelle Willis

#8. But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

John H. Reagan

#9. You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Mickey Rourke

#10. Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

Eric Idle

#11. I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

Owain Yeoman

#12. I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me.

Sara Bareilles