Albie's Quotes

#1. There was no explanation for how the school, which was the major source of misery in their lives, could have been transformed into the most compelling place on earth simply by virtue of its being Saturday. What a difference a day makes, Albie's

Ann Patchett

#2. He wondered if this was what people were doing - were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life was like for them? Albie's

Ann Patchett

#3. You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

Albie Sachs

#4. Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all creatures, that dog will bite him. And then he may tell everyone that he was right about dogs, that they are evil. But I ask you, who is at fault in this scenario, the man or the dog?

Adriana Mather

#6. Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Holly Near

#7. My ideal weight is moobless.

Albie Sachs

#8. Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

Albie Sachs

#9. All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

Albie Sachs

#10. developed Irish Alzheimer's over the years, which is to say that they failed to remember anything but their grudges.

Albie Cullen

#11. Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.

Albie Sachs

#12. Nowhere do Jesus or the apostles ever treat the Old Testament as human reflections on the divine. It is instead the voice of the Holy Spirit (Acts 4:25; Heb. 3:7) and God's own breath (2 Tim. 3:16).

Kevin DeYoung

#13. Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

Douglas Adams

#14. The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

Albie Sachs

#15. But now the train had finally begun to move, and Albie had switched the fearless truth-telling eye of his camera lens from his untied laces to the walls of the tunnels under east London, because you can never have enough pictures of dirty concrete.

David Nicholls

#16. Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.

R.W. Rivers

#17. Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

Walter Moers

#18. Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

Albie Sachs

#19. Primitive does not mean stupid.

Albie Sachs