The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams
Related Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ... SOPHIE WU I applied for the job. They had three stores and they were shocked! They said that I was a little ov... CLIVE CUSSLER It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it. RAIN PHOENIX People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that the... KEANU REEVES Anyway, it was at the Electric Cowboy and there were about 180 of us there and they gave us all a nu... JODY EVANS They didn't have to say a word. I knew what it was. But they said it anyway, because they have to. T... BETTY VEZINA They were very desperate to get me out, but I knew from past experience I never get in line anyway, ... MATTHEW HOGGARD They lined it right up at me. They found me because they thought I messed it up the week before, but... DREW STANTON They were trying to outdo each other, trying to pump each other up. It was all modern dance mixes. B... GOOD CHARLOTTE I respected everyone, and I think they wanted me to be me. They thought I was crazy when I wanted to... CONSTANTINE MAROULIS It was funny to me. I just kept laughing. They thought they were going to beat us. I don't know what... ALEX MONTGOMERY [Cooper called Libby directly, Abrams told NPR, and was referred to his lawyer for authorization. Ab... FLOYD ABRAMS Alabama gave me the opportunity. It wasn't me that had to face (her parents). It was Auburn that had... ASHLEY BENTLEY It was very clear to me that DSHEA was created in order to give the supplement manufacturers a huge ... DON CATLIN I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and ... BOB NOVAK I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't kno... SOFIA VERGARA We had a guy who is from Miami who was kidding around with one of his boys. Miami thought it was som... JACOB HESTER No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometim... ELENA ANAYA They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that fro... CHRISTINA HENRY I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the... DAVID KAY It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole s... MATTHEW REES Most teams probably think we're the whipping boys but they could get a surprise. MICK MCCARTHY My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were ... CARY FUKUNAGA I think it was the early success I had. They had to give me respect that I was just going to go scor... BROCK CARRIER Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old... SIDNEY SHELDON They were happy to take me and I was pleased that I was no longer employed on reservations, I was wo... ANURANJAN KUJUR This is a pretty young team, but we need to be able to put big games behind us. I thought it was cle... GREG WILT The very first seed was really in the great Polish crisis of 1980-81, because it seems to me they we... BRIAN CROZIER It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to tur... LAUREN ALCORN They wanted someone like a Danny DeVito character a guy who was kind of a pit bull. That wasn't me, ... BRAD GARRETT It was very clear to me that it was from previous conversations I had with Linda Tripp, MONICA LEWINSKY I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four... ADELAIDE KANE Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared... RUTH BADER GINSBURG I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spirituall... Q-TIP The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going t... BILL VEECK I don't think it was hard to find me, because they definitely had to watch me when they watched him.... LASHAUN WARD I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... LISA KUDROW When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me t... WINONA RYDER It calms me down seeing E.J. there. But I think it would have made me a little calmer if he had won ... MARK NOE They thought I was a friend of mine, ... It's the same thing that happens in the 'hood here. I was t... DADDY YANKEE Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was ... ALBERT BORRIS They didn't guarantee me anything, but the vibe I got from them from what they said to me was that t... BRONSON ARROYO Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. The... LORRIE MOORE I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking ma... LOUIS ARMSTRONG Geno told them why I was there, and they all came down off the truck and looked me over — I guess ... DREXEL DEAL When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block... EMILY RIOS I tried to walk it off a little bit and my balance was a little off. My vision was clear, my mind wa... HUNTER CANTWELL He gave me a lot of confidence. I remember after the sixth game, Whitey Ford beat us and I said to P... JOHNNY PODRES When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to an... RALPH BROWN I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 3... JACK NICHOLSON The boys coming through and winning, we felt like that was pretty big-time. It was cold weather out ... BILL HARRELSON I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghast... KURT VONNEGUT JR. What they said to me was that they were doing it in honor of the Katrina evacuees. The music has bee... ARETHA FRANKLIN I can't believe it. I actually thought I had won the race. I tried very hard. Based on previous race... HELIO CASTRONEVES I've always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the... GARY JOHNSON That was the hardest decision, but I knew it was the right decision. I thought they were gone, becau... DORIS CAUSEY Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was real... VICTORIA JUSTICE I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t... DREAMA WALKER I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these... EDDIE VEDDER Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. A... JOSS SHELDON I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so muc... BLYTHE MASTERS The first half, I thought they were going to get to me. I had to play my game. I had to step it up f... LUIS HERNANDEZ The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG They told me they were going to do it, but I had my doubts. I was wondering if they'd be able to swa... GEOFF HOGAN M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The h... LORETTA SWIT Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience... ABDUS SALAM I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ... MARA WILSON I felt I was in clear. I thought I had an empty net when he took me down. CHAD KILGER People used to ask me if it didn't bother me that they were saying things against me that were not t... CHARLES PICKERING When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistaken... ELLEN DEGENERES Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit... CHARLES DICKENS I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping tha... ELAINE PAIGE I kept having to remind the guys that I had scored goals in this league before, ... They all thought... BEN OLSEN They knew where I was going to be. The girl that was covering me knew everywhere I was going. That w... EMERY WALLACE I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later ... BLAKE LIVELY He helped me understand where they were at in terms of the progression of the offense. If they had n... BRAYLON EDWARDS I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying... LUCY LAWLESS Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. ELVIS PRESLEY I'm delighted to be joining Newcastle, ... As soon as Chelsea made it clear they were prepared to le... SCOTT PARKER [His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained... FELIX ADLER Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway... JOSEPH G. PETERSON I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. The... JACKIE ROBINSON Of course, I liked it, but it was weird. With the Winona kids, I didn't make that big of an impact. ... SAM BLANK I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thoug... TOM WOLFE I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a g... ALEX BORSTEIN My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age.... FAY WRAY I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi... MARILYN MONROE The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER They were better than me, but I was bitter. SABAHAT AHMAD It was a good game for me today. They weren't coming out at me, they were letting me shoot the ball ... BLAINE MANNING I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was... J.M. RICHARDS They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of... CORBIN BERNSEN I knew with his mentality, his ego, he was gonna try to knock me out, which was gonna allow me to re... EVANDER HOLYFIELD Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thoug... MARK HOPPUS Movies were movies, whether they were old or new. They always captivated me, pulled me into worlds w... CHELSEA SEDOTI If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wo... ANDREW MOTION Coach was trying to throw different stuff at them. When they were in the zone, he wanted me to work ... KAMMRON TAYLOR I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as... DINAH KATT I thought it was extremely informative. There were a lot of aspects of the department that I had no ... BLAIR BREWER I was surprised when they told me it was 35 years. I thought it was only 32. BILL BEAN
More M. H. Abrams
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion look... M. H. ABRAMS I was never a monist - always a diversitarian. M. H. ABRAMS Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition. M. H. ABRAMS We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. M. H. ABRAMS It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare eme... M. H. ABRAMS When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain ... M. H. ABRAMS Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. M. H. ABRAMS Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture th... M. H. ABRAMS The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselv... M. H. ABRAMS If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. ABRAMS We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. M. H. ABRAMS We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We establi... M. H. ABRAMS The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t... M. H. ABRAMS John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another for... M. H. ABRAMS If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictio... M. H. ABRAMS Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. M. H. ABRAMS When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of idea... M. H. ABRAMS If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. M. H. ALDERSON Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. H. M. WARNER If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. M. H. ALDERSON If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. M. H. ALDERSON A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w... H. S. M. BURNS It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor. LANA M. H. WILDER Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai... LANA M. H. WILDER You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle. LANA M. H. WILDER Smile. Give Earth the biggest smile you've got. See every glimmer of light in the scariest, darkest ... LANA M. H. WILDER Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. H. S. M. BURNS Someone died today. Someone was born today. It's not just a day—it's a moment. LANA M. H. WILDER The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among profess... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefi... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military re... ELLIOTT ABRAMS During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senato... ELLIOTT ABRAMS CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high... FLOYD ABRAMS I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca... FLOYD ABRAMS I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa... FLOYD ABRAMS I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e... FLOYD ABRAMS It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. FLOYD ABRAMS I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years... FLOYD ABRAMS It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve... FLOYD ABRAMS The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and... FLOYD ABRAMS CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ... FLOYD ABRAMS The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo... FLOYD ABRAMS No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ... FLOYD ABRAMS It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim... FLOYD ABRAMS I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye... FLOYD ABRAMS My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then... FLOYD ABRAMS I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an... FLOYD ABRAMS I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g... FLOYD ABRAMS I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'... FLOYD ABRAMS I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N... FLOYD ABRAMS Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ... FLOYD ABRAMS There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest... FLOYD ABRAMS I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ... FLOYD ABRAMS Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law... FLOYD ABRAMS So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ... FLOYD ABRAMS When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o... FLOYD ABRAMS The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the la... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. ELLIOTT ABRAMS Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history tea... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA a... ADELE ABRAMS The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. I... ADELE ABRAMS They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ... ADELE ABRAMS It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked? ADELE ABRAMS I have never represented (or heard of) a company where a 'pattern of violations' had been used. ADELE ABRAMS You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. CREIGHTON ABRAMS Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was be... ELLIOTT ABRAMS While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have... FLOYD ABRAMS It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th... FLOYD ABRAMS The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to offi... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free e... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the... ELLIOTT ABRAMS When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. CREIGHTON ABRAMS First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore. CASEY ABRAMS While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem se... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitti... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' dev... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab... ELLIOTT ABRAMS While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, ou... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's c... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leade... ELLIOTT ABRAMS At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Araf... ELLIOTT ABRAMS What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. ELLIOTT ABRAMS They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. CREIGHTON ABRAMS I consider myself a bassist first. CASEY ABRAMS Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. ELLIOTT ABRAMS Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation&... ELLIOTT ABRAMS It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. ELLIOTT ABRAMS Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human ri... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened f... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admir... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. JOHN ABRAMS A completely different type of audience. They really like traditional bluegrass music over there. JOHN ABRAMS I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place. JOHN ABRAMS Because of last year's surprise, the company decided to go ahead and manufacture extra doses. JOHN ABRAMS It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix. JOHN ABRAMS The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it'... JOHN ABRAMS When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. A... JOHN ABRAMS The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. ELLIOTT ABRAMS I've been dying to work with Simon since I saw Shaun of the Dead, JJ ABRAMS Watch the behaviour of the actors, JJ ABRAMS That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets ... JJ ABRAMS She'll be in every episode. JJ ABRAMS He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I p... JJ ABRAMS I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have ... JJ ABRAMS The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a... JJ ABRAMS Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but ... JJ ABRAMS Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that... JJ ABRAMS I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Satur... JJ ABRAMS The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial... DONALD ABRAMS [Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abra... DONALD ABRAMS [Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -no... DONALD ABRAMS In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already... DONALD ABRAMS If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-... DOMINIC ABRAMS Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechan... DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be t... DOMINIC ABRAMS Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today, DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be... DOMINIC ABRAMS They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the... DICK ABRAMS Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game. DICK ABRAMS It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities t... DICK ABRAMS Their No. 1 strength is to run the ball. They run the Wing-T, which is always difficult to defend. DICK ABRAMS They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line ... DICK ABRAMS We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, be... DICK ABRAMS Maybe for (senior quarterback Aaron) Boehme and a couple guys it's big, but most are going at it as ... DICK ABRAMS It is fair to say he has had a tremendous positive impact on my life and my business. DOUGLAS ABRAMS The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools tak... DOUGLAS ABRAMS Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary. DOUGLAS ABRAMS Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. DOUGLAS ABRAMS [One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F... FLOYD ABRAMS [That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil... FLOYD ABRAMS Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ... FLOYD ABRAMS I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se... FLOYD ABRAMS will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that... FLOYD ABRAMS a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well. FLOYD ABRAMS coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. FLOYD ABRAMS Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ... FLOYD ABRAMS President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as it... ELLIOTT ABRAMS An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affec... ELLIOTT ABRAMS A SOBA is a client/server application done right. It is a business application that is centered on W... CHARLES ABRAMS A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered ... CHARLES ABRAMS We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something... CHARLES ABRAMS We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the t... CHARLES ABRAMS We've got financial professionals, we've got attorneys, real estate experts. Weston's probably the w... CHARLES ABRAMS A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet be... CHARLES ABRAMS A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle f... CHARLES ABRAMS I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal. DAN ABRAMS When eating an elephant take one bite at a time CREIGHTON ABRAMS You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. CREIGHTON ABRAMS They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. CREIGHTON ABRAMS We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substanti... DAN ABRAMS But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22, DAN ABRAMS A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ... DAN ABRAMS All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club. DAN ABRAMS The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be bloomin... DAN ABRAMS This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. DAN ABRAMS Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to mos... DAN ABRAMS He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers ... DAN ABRAMS It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closin... DAN ABRAMS The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of ... DAN ABRAMS Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or i... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to ... LEIGH ABRAMS We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the v... LEIGH ABRAMS Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less tha... LEIGH ABRAMS The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet... LEIGH ABRAMS It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe... LEIGH ABRAMS Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant ... LEIGH ABRAMS If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those dec... JOHN ABRAMS The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions p... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ... FLOYD ABRAMS Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations Gen... ELLIOTT ABRAMS [In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ... FLOYD ABRAMS On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a r... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. ELLIOTT ABRAMS There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Ra... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extr... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet ALICE ABRAMS I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we... DAN ABRAMS The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gif... ELLIOTT ABRAMS What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to pr... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp... ELLIOTT ABRAMS