Michael Abrash Quotes

#1. It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken.

George Orwell

#2. If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Miguel Syjuco

#3. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

#4. Walking the streets of New York, a lot of people are cheering me on. It feels good.

Alex Rodriguez

#5. Good people drink good beer.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.

Jerry Rice

#7. It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

Michael Abrash

#8. I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

Winona Ryder

#9. If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

Kevin Spacey

#10. Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.

Michael Cunningham

#11. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Sarah Addison Allen

#12. A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Livy

#13. You're screening your calls?"
"Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots."
"Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl.
"You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.( ... )

Ilona Andrews

#14. Nothing, is what it appears to be, when it's only with your eyes you see.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#15. After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

Michael Abrash