Abraham Ravenwood Quotes

#1. Within the hour, Abraham Ravenwood was denounced as the Devil, a cheat, a scoundrel, a no-goodnik, and a thief.

Kami Garcia

#2. My body was jerking and shaking, and I remembered John when he was in the Tunnels with Lena. The weird jerking and twitching he seemed unable to control.
Was this what it felt like to be in the grip of Abraham Ravenwood?

Kami Garcia

#3. Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear?

Kami Garcia

#4. Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

Dorothea Brande

#5. I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

Jello Biafra

#6. Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. You can't hit without your hands.

Nomar Garciaparra

#8. Because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

Laura Miller

#9. I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.

Boris Johnson

#10. I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

Donna Summer

#11. I liked your eyes and I could tell that you liked my body.

David Levithan

#12. Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

Roger Federer

#13. Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

Howard Barker

#14. Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars.

Blake Crouch

#15. Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. Taking the small box, he put the Edfrank jewellery piece away in his coat pocket.

Philip K. Dick

#16. The bees came the summer of 1964

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Neil Postman