Abridgement Quotes

#1. The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Russell Smith

#2. You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

Mario Savio

#3. If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody

Joan Crawford

#4. For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#5. Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Abraham Verghese

#7. Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight?

William Shakespeare

#8. The new law forbids foreign funding for imams and mosques, a restriction that does not apply to Christian or Jewish places of worship.

Anonymous

#9. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#10. Lissen Percepied do you believe in freedom?-then say what you want, it's poetry, poetry, all of it is poetry, great prose is poetry, great verse is poetry.

Jack Kerouac

#11. We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up

Seth Klarman

#12. D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

Justin Theroux