Top 100 Quotes About Abbott
#1. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.
D.E. Stevenson
#2. Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
Drake Bell
#3. The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
Chris Bowen
#4. My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
Quentin Tarantino
#5. I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.
Kevin Andrews
#6. When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.
Willie Nelson
#7. I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.
A. J. Jacobs
#8. The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott,
Wendy Davis
#9. What happened, Bob explained to us now, although we didn't need telling, was that Jack Abbott was a psychopath. He couldn't bear being disrespected. His self-worth was too grandiose for that. He couldn't control his impulses. "When
Jon Ronson
#10. Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.
Justine Larbalestier
#11. There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.
Richard Flanagan
#12. Maybe - just maybe - going through the small-minded, scared, angry, petty Abbott era is the antidote we needed to combat the slow poison of decades of public apathy about politics.
Andrew P. Street
#13. I'm standing here in just my panties, my hand on your dick. Does it look like I want to stop?"
--Angela Abbott, in Dirty Little Secret
Sophia Ryan
#15. Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle - clinically, a negotiation - over the possession of the Bad Mood.
Chris Bachelder
#16. The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government - but then, so too has Tony Abbott.
Richard Flanagan
#17. Act One: Get your hero up a tree. Act Two: Throw rocks at him. Act Three: Get him down out of the tree. - attributed to George Abbott, on playwriting
Darrell Fusaro
#18. People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.
Ray Romano
#19. If Dan had ever wanted anything more, then I had killed that by ignoring him at Abbott's. That had been my one chance to confront him not as warring reenactors, but as two people, a girl and a boy, and I had killed it. I am the Charles Manson of relationships.
Leila Sales
#20. We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.
William Of Malmesbury
#21. People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
Miles D. White
#22. Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.
Margo Kingston
#23. If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious ... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.
Louise Mensch
#24. It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?
Bud Abbott
#25. Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
Paul Dickson
#26. Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.
Bill Shorten
#27. I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.
Willie Nelson
#28. Muhammad's example must have had a lasting effect on his early followers: as Nabia Abbott has shown, throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran. Certainly,
Reza Aslan
#29. It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
Bud Abbott
#30. Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.
Richard Di Natale
#31. A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.
Wendy Davis
#32. The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith 215
Jean Webster
#34. Tony Abbott would do anything but sell his arse
Tony Windsor
#35. Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.
Tim Heidecker
#36. In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott
Austin Kleon
#37. Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: I don't know, exactly.
John Irving
#38. Tony Abbott is the Prime Minister of Australia. Tony Abbott will be coming to Victoria on a regular basis.
Denis Napthine
#39. We were new then, our lives stretched out before us. Our families had let us go. Abbott had yet to find us. For this very short time, it would be just the two of us - just two kids.
Bridget Asher
#40. Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.
E. M. Forster
#41. Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.
David L. Katz
#42. Yeah, t hat would be genius-smart , Nick. T hen she can go back on Ellen Abbott -
Anonymous
#43. There had been a horrible incident the day before, when Hannah Abbott had been taken out of Herbology to be told her mother had been found dead. They
J.K. Rowling
#45. Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
Harvey Korman
#46. If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues, Richard Abbott said.
John Irving
#47. We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.
John S.C. Abbott
#48. If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
Lyman Abbott
#49. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott
#50. Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#51. What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind.
Charles C. Abbott
#52. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#53. It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.
Lyman Abbott
#54. Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.
Edwin A. Abbott
#55. A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.
Jacob Abbott
#56. Now you should be thinking about me fucking you," he hissed. "Because I sure as hell am."
"Oh God," Kelly breathed.
"No, you don't say his name when I fuck you. You say mine.
Abigail Roux
#57. Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott
#58. It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So, when the performer loves what they're doing, it's easy for us to love what we're doing.
Jennifer Abbott
#59. If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.
Megan Abbott
#60. Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.
Jack Henry Abbott
#61. I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
Tony Abbott
#62. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
Tony Abbott
#63. It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.
Jim Abbott
#64. Systems that are too complex to understand kill organizational productivity and the ease with which you can add engineers or add functionality to your system.
Martin L. Abbott
#65. We're all wanting things we don't understand. things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts.
Megan Abbott
#66. Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children
clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?
Diane Abbott
#67. I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
Tony Abbott
#69. Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past.
Greg Abbott
#70. Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.
Karen Abbott
#71. The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#72. Lance could be trusted with your life. Librarians are like that.
Victoria Abbott
#73. That's what parenthood was about, wasn't it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn't yours anymore but herself.
Megan Abbott
#74. In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
Karen Abbott
#75. I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.
Jeff Abbott
#76. I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.
Karen Abbott
#77. I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.
Edwin A. Abbott
#78. I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
Berenice Abbott
#79. I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before," Nick grumbled.
Kelly laughed harder. "I'm pretty sure it was."
"Shut up."
"You're high."
"Oh, look at the pothead calling the kettle names," Nick said in a singsong voice as he settled onto the wide chaise beside Kelly.
Abigail Roux
#81. I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.
Jim Abbott
#82. Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#83. What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.
Jim Abbott
#84. I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
Megan Abbott
#85. Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.
Tony Abbott
#86. Can I trust you, Addy?" he asks. I say he can. Does anyone ever answer that question with a no?
Megan Abbott
#87. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
#88. If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.
Tony Abbott
#89. The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.
Tony Abbott
#90. The climate change argument is absolute crap
Tony Abbott
#91. I love you," Nick whispered. "Has nothing to do with the circumstances, or our history, or how close to death we've come together. I would love you in any incarnation of yourself.
Abigail Roux
#92. War, like politics, was men's work, and women were supposed to be among its victims, not its perpetrators. Women's loyalty was assumed, regarded as a prime attribute of femininity itself,
Karen Abbott
#93. You cannot win an election without a fight.
Tony Abbott
#94. It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
Megan Abbott
#95. I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons
Tony Abbott
#96. It is funny that some of must not only get our bearings but must also know all the details of the world before we venture out into it.
Jack Henry Abbott
#97. Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
Bud Abbott
#98. Digger stood and ambled toward the balcony. "This explains so much. I feel like I've just finished a crossword puzzle."
"How do you know what that feels like?" Kelly asked
Abigail Roux
#99. The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.
Tony Abbott
#100. No one would ever make the mistake of calling this guy cute. This guy was sexy. Incredibly, dangerously, devastatingly sexy.
Katrina Abbott
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