0sk Quotes & Sayings

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music. — Lou Doillon

Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth. — Oliver Stone

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. — Helen Keller

In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us. — Anthony Trollope

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy. — Samantha Morton

Growing up seems easier for men, maybe because their rites of passage are clearer. They perform acts of bravery on the battlefield or show they're men through physical labor or by making money. For women, it's more confusing. We have no rites of passage. Do we become women when a man first makes love to us? If so, why do we refer to it as a loss of virginity? Doesn't the word 'loss' imply that we are better off before? I abhor the idea that we become women only through the physical act of a man. No, I think we become women when we learn what is important in our lives, when we learn to give and to take with a loving heart. — Suzanne Elizabeth Phillips

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit , power , and love of our Redeemer. — William James

I put a row of toys on the bed. A brown-haired Barbie doll, then a Lego ambulance...then a gray Buckbeak the Hippogriff. — Emily Barr

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities. — Howard Gardner

There's a Nigerian adage that says 'no matter how long an okra plant grows it can never be taller than its owner'. — S.A. David

It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light. — Denny Taylor

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began. — Margaret Atwood

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. — Michael A. Stackpole