Joalice Olin Quotes & Sayings

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story. — Zach Condon

To be big, you have to think big. Don't limit your imagination. — Ehab Atalla

He stood out because he had a slight British accent and an odd tattoo on his neck. A skull and a flower. — Janet Evanovich

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat. — Henry David Thoreau

The men who rush into undertakings of vast change usually feel they are in possession of some irresistible power. The generation that made the French Revolution had an extravagant conception of the omnipotence of man's reason and the boundless range of his intelligence. Never, says de Tocqueville, had humanity been prouder of itself nor had it ever so much faith in its own omnipotence. — Eric Hoffer

I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70% imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen. — Haley Joel Osment

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience. — Kurt Vonnegut

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity. — Gaston Rebuffat