Walter Abish Quotes

#1. Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Dean Koontz

#2. Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

Walter Abish

#3. America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Walter Abish

#4. Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?

Walter Abish

#5. A quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.

Roy Barnes

#6. I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.

Walter Abish

#7. I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

Kitty Carlisle

#8. In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.

Walter Abish

#9. I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

Raven-Symone

#10. Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.

Linda Wertheimer

#11. Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

John Powell