Asia Ohara Quotes & Sayings

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters. — Henry James Sr.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere — Marcus Aurelius

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. — Lisa See

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars. — Dean Spade

You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest ... — Barack Obama

Because if he wasn't really, really careful, Lori Sullivan was just going to keep stealing his heart
one sentence, one meal, one smile at time — Bella Andre

Any team can win. — Terry Bradshaw

How can I know you love me
unless I see you grieve over me? — Louise Gluck

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me. — Marlon Wayans

For some idiot reason, the idea of going into the drink with a misspelled safety device weirded Bryce out. — Harry Turtledove

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski

I don't really believe in lucky things, but I wear lucky underwear as a joke. — Julia Mancuso