Laughing Octopus Quotes & Sayings

The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality. — Stephen Fry

I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean ... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-I don't ... — Rick Riordan

Harmony, like a following breeze
at sea, is the exception. — Harvey Oxenhorn

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves. — Louise Bernikow

If we don't control our calendar, our calendar will end up controlling us. — Mark Batterson

Write the way you talk. Naturally. — David Ogilvy

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim

Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs — James Gosling

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue? — Edwidge Danticat

For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies. — John Calvin

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect. — R.C. Sproul

They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived. — Mark Helprin

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. — George Orwell

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. — Bell Hooks