Abbey Lincoln quote: "But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a qua...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and i...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did...
ABBEY LINCOLN

There's nothing to scream about because in America we're all one blanket, everybody feels the same w...
ABBEY LINCOLN

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter...
ABBEY LINCOLN

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellin...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the tr...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
ABBEY LINCOLN

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody want...
ABBEY LINCOLN

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke E...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
ABBEY LINCOLN

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Lincoln.
LINCOLN

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.
ABBEY CLANCY

Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your sk...
ABBEY CLANCY

My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
ABBEY CLANCY

My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it woul...
ABBEY CLANCY

I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
ABBEY CLANCY

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
ABBEY CLANCY

Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pi...
ABBEY CLANCY

I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll nev...
ABBEY CLANCY

I always take my make-up off before bed.
ABBEY CLANCY

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror...
ABBEY CLANCY

My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St....
ABBEY CLANCY

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
ABBEY CLANCY

When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy...
ABBEY CLANCY

I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lip...
ABBEY CLANCY

I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the f...
ABBEY CLANCY

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it&...
ABBEY CLANCY

I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, b...
ABBEY CLANCY

Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
ABBEY CLANCY

For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect...
ABBEY CLANCY

Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
ABBEY CLANCY

Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClu...
ABBEY CLANCY

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
ABBEY CLANCY

No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out,...
ABBEY CLANCY

I never go wild with nails.
ABBEY CLANCY

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think...
ABBEY CLANCY

I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to th...
ABBEY CLANCY

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY

For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY

I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (...
EDWARD ABBEY

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to...
EDWARD ABBEY

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing ...
EDWARD ABBEY

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...
EDWARD ABBEY

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ...
EDWARD ABBEY

That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get wher...
EDWARD ABBEY

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, an...
EDWARD ABBEY

Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
EDWARD ABBEY

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never ...
EDWARD ABBEY

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the w...
EDWARD ABBEY

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca...
EDWARD ABBEY

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff...
EDWARD ABBEY

It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the societ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
EDWARD ABBEY

Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, ...
EDWARD ABBEY

If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking
EDWARD ABBEY

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they...
EDWARD ABBEY

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the s...
EDWARD ABBEY

I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge fa...
ABBEY CLANCY

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
EDWARD ABBEY

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your...
EDWARD ABBEY

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enou...
EDWARD ABBEY

Grown men do not need leaders.
EDWARD ABBEY

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
EDWARD ABBEY

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me po...
EDWARD ABBEY

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop ...
EDWARD ABBEY

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide s...
EDWARD ABBEY

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell...
EDWARD ABBEY

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enem...
EDWARD ABBEY

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
EDWARD ABBEY

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
EDWARD ABBEY

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
EDWARD ABBEY

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
EDWARD ABBEY

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum float...
EDWARD ABBEY

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
EDWARD ABBEY

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is Californ...
EDWARD ABBEY

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written do...
LYNN ABBEY

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
LYNN ABBEY

My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used...
ABBEY CLANCY

I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I...
ABBEY CLANCY

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
EDWARD ABBEY

My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being ...
ABBEY CLANCY

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin...
EDWARD ABBEY

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
LYNN ABBEY

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above...
EDWARD ABBEY

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
EDWARD ABBEY

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few...
EDWARD ABBEY

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even ...
EDWARD ABBEY

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
LYNN ABBEY

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a para...
LYNN ABBEY

After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival.
JOSHUA ABBEY

All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else.
JOSHUA ABBEY

It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ...
JOSHUA ABBEY

The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that s...
JOSHUA ABBEY

I culled the cream of the crop.
JOSHUA ABBEY

Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.
DOUG ABBEY

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment...
DOUG ABBEY

Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners.
DOUG ABBEY

Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airline...
DOUG ABBEY

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.
DEAR ABBEY

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expecta...
DEAR ABBEY

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership.
DEAR ABBEY

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
DEAR ABBEY

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's c...
DEAR ABBEY

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume th...
EDWARD ABBEY

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
EDWARD ABBEY

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the del...
EDWARD ABBEY

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit
EDWARD ABBEY

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few...
LYNN ABBEY

I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacke...
ABBEY CLANCY

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a busines...
EDWARD ABBEY

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into th...
LYNN ABBEY

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a st...
EDWARD ABBEY

"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a par...
EDWARD ABBEY

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with ...
EDWARD ABBEY

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
EDWARD ABBEY

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in troubl...
EDWARD ABBEY

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
EDWARD ABBEY

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world—Nature—is the only means by which we ...
EDWARD ABBEY

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator m...
EDWARD ABBEY

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of ex...
EDWARD ABBEY

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of ...
EDWARD ABBEY

If the end does not justify the means - what can?
EDWARD ABBEY

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY

Doubles paddling is all about compromise, and we have worked well together in our training.
ABBEY MIEDEMA

Alexa has so much experience in doubles that we have settled into the boat well.
ABBEY MIEDEMA

He gets tunnel vision. He doesn't see anything else other than her. It's a full delusional state of ...
ABBEY BRADWAY

It continues to grow to a fixation.
ABBEY BRADWAY

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
LYNN ABBEY

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell
EDWARD ABBEY

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is a...
EDWARD ABBEY

In fact, I suspect that our only hope is disaster. Cruel tho' it is to say it, there has got to be a...
EDWARD ABBEY

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not...
EDWARD ABBEY

A drink a day keeps the shrink away
EDWARD ABBEY

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho...
LYNN ABBEY

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
EDWARD ABBEY

He's out of touch. He's not feeling anything. He's done what he set out to do.
ABBEY BRADWAY

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
LYNN ABBEY

I'm always trolling for trivia.
LYNN ABBEY

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing require...
LYNN ABBEY

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
LYNN ABBEY

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a para...
LYNN ABBEY

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known a...
LYNN ABBEY

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
LYNN ABBEY

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They...
LYNN ABBEY

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were a...
LYNN ABBEY

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the spec...
LYNN ABBEY

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough a...
EDWARD ABBEY

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem
EDWARD ABBEY

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...
EDWARD ABBEY

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repress...
EDWARD ABBEY

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
EDWARD ABBEY

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
EDWARD ABBEY

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
EDWARD ABBEY

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
EDWARD ABBEY

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
EDWARD ABBEY

Although it is a fine page-turner, we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religiou...
WESTMINSTER ABBEY

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY

Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
DOWNTON ABBEY

How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized ...
EDWARD ABBEY

This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of ...
EDWARD ABBEY

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
EDWARD ABBEY

I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of ...
ABBEY CLANCY

Not all questions can be answered.
EDWARD ABBEY

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
DEAR ABBEY

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
LYNN ABBEY

I'm always trolling for trivia.
LYNN ABBEY

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it&...
LYNN ABBEY

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
EDWARD ABBEY

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bomb...
EDWARD ABBEY

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect ...
EDWARD ABBEY

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
EDWARD ABBEY

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

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But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

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