Bob Ong 56 Quotes & Sayings

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart

His sculpture would have joy in it, try to capture the sense of fertility of Dionysus, the nature god, the power of the intoxicating drink that enabled a man to laugh and sing and forget for a while the sorrow of his earthly miseries. And then, perhaps, at the same time he could portray the decay that came with too much forgetfulness, that he saw all around him, when man surrendered his moral and spiritual values for the pleasures of the
flesh. The Bacchus would be the central figure of his theme, a human being rather than a demigod; then there would be a child of about seven, sweet-
faced, lovable, nibbling from a bunch of grapes. His composition would have death in it too; the tiger, who liked wine and was loved by Bacchus, with the deadest, dead skin and head conceivable — Irving Stone

....there'll be times in your life where it'll be hard to keep your faith. Times when you wonder why God is putting you through a particular trial. But you'll always look back and see clearly how you grew and learned about yourself, and sometimes you'll learn the nature of others.

Whatever Sticks Most — Darren Hogarth

Young man, consider that the train has left, and all you can do is loudly slam the door in farewell. — Mikhail Tal

Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know. — Sen No Rikyu

He's the turd that won't flush, as Strike put it to Lucy, — Robert Galbraith

as Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; and what would be the point of saying today that the abbot Abo had a stern eye and pale cheeks, when by now he and those around him are dust and their bodies have the mortal grayness of dust (only their souls, God grant, shining with a light that will never be extinguished)? — Umberto Eco

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. — Francis Bacon

When our spirit departs, we will transit into the next world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's when you're on the row
that you notice that
everything
is owned
and that there are locks on
everything
this is the way a democracy
works:
you get what you can,
try to keep that
and add to it
if possible — Charles Bukowski

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. — Rashida Jones

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition. — Roger Scruton