Karen Oliveto Quotes & Sayings

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. — Vonda Shepard

What a lovely ride that was. I haven't been on a train in an eternity. Something wonderfully soothing about traveling that way. — Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist. — Stan Smith

Elizabeth's personality was a binary system - off and pissed off. — Mark Gimenez

What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes? — Jodi Picoult

And just as it is common to hear how, when one is in love, anything one sees reminds one of that love - our feelings remake the world in a secular equivalent of the faith that sees the hand of God in everything - so I began to find that when one is thinking on a theme, everything seems to reflect on it. Suddenly, everything I saw or read, in this girlish city of temples, seemed to take me back to the theme of the lady and the monk. — Pico Iyer

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too. — Robert Fitzgerald

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. — James Patterson

Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God. — Ted Cruz

It is impossible to live without hardship. The hardship of daily trifles, Ashely explains, ever accumulating and impossible to ignore, is so much meaner than pain or cold or fatigue. These annoyances make one weak and petty and shallow, just as greater struggles make one brave and wise. It's the little things that bring one down. Delayed trains and burnt puddings and drafty rooms. I was never so miserably cold on a mountain as I was in a drafty room. One can rise to dire occasions, but most of the time one worries about one's burnt pudding. It takes real struggle to see what life is. Then you realize you don't give two straws if your pudding's been burnt. — Justin Go

If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket...there was no point wishing for soup. — Chinelo Okparanta

A good man knows when to drop the Alpha shit and chase after the woman he loves. — K.M. Scott

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks. — Alyson Hannigan

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can. — Joe Mantegna

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. — Augustus William Hare