All American Olivia Quotes & Sayings

He had discovered Time and Death and God. — Aldous Huxley

A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. — Marissa Meyer

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity. — Randy Alcorn

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. — Olivia Williams

He claims not to be drinking, but I don't think he knows what this means. — Nick Flynn

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. — Olivia De Havilland

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love. — Chuck Palahniuk

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. — Augustus William Hare

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it. — Chloe Rose Lattanzi

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. — Anthony Edwards

In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real. — John Glen

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is. — J.H. Wyman

Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here - you're supposed to be there. — Olivia Sudjic

The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make. — Booker T. Jones

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any! — Olivia Williams

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives. — Francis Spufford

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. — Olivia De Havilland

That autumn, I kept coming back to Hopper's images, drawn to them as if they were blueprints and I was a prisoner; as if they contained some vital clue about my state. Though I went with my eyes over dozens of rooms, I always returned to the same place: to the New York diner of Nighthawks, a painting that Joyce Carol Oates once described as "our most poignant, ceaselessly replicated romantic image of American loneliness" ...
Green shadows were falling in spikes and diamonds on the sidewalk. There is no colour in existence that so powerfully communicates urban alienation, the atomisation of human beings inside the edifices they create, as this noxious pallid green, which only came into being with the advent of electricity, and which is inextricably associated with the nocturnal city, the city of glass towers, of empty illuminated offices and neon signs. — Olivia Laing

Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes. — Nobu Matsuhisa