Alan Abelson Quotes

#1. The whiskey was going down sweet. That was what happened after a while, with no meal to assist - it had to do the food work on its own.
"There. We talked about death."
"That's talking about death?

Lorrie Moore

#2. As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

#3. What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.

Michael Cunningham

#4. For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

Robert Ben Garant

#5. Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.
-Sarah to Evie Johnson, p.345

Gillian Shields

#6. In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.

Alan Abelson

#7. Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill.

Alan Abelson

#8. I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

Samuel L. Jackson

#9. Work hard, play hard, stay hard. I coined it first back 1993.

Scott Deuty

#10. The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

Milan Kundera

#11. The impressions on the soul that comes from the Holy Ghost are far more significant than a vision. It is where the spirit speaks to spirit and the imprint upon the soul is far more difficult to erase.

Joseph B. Wirthlin