Quote

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Edward Abbey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Tick
Motor
Critics
Dog
Like
Ornamental
Ticks
Tits
Dysfunctional

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
Edward Abbey
Image
A world without open country would be universal jail.
Edward Abbey
Image
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
Edward Abbey
Image
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
Edward Abbey
Image
Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
Edward Abbey
Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
Edward Abbey
Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey
Image
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
Edward Abbey
Image
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Edward Abbey
Image
Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
Edward Abbey
Image
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
Edward Abbey
Image
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
Edward Abbey
Image
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
Edward Abbey
Image
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
Edward Abbey
Image
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
Edward Abbey
Image
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
Edward Abbey
Image
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
Edward Abbey
Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
Edward Abbey
Image
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
Edward Abbey
Image
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Edward Abbey