Literary Oddballs Quotes & Sayings

Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life. — Archibald Marwizi

Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up. — Anton Chekhov

That prick's still your copyeditor?" "Yep. He's such a dick. He was giving me — Blake Crouch

Notice the malice toward an independent man. Look back at your own life. Howard, and at the people you've met. They know. They're afraid. You're a reproach. — Ayn Rand

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own. — Lester Bangs

If love were human I would've set them on fire by now - a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I'd breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love's destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart. — Piper Payne

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry. — Dorothea Dix

Onething i have learnt is that parents should treat their kids in a way they would love in return, because growing up litteraly makes you a kid again. you will get it too. — Mohlalefi J Motsima

To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to persist at all costs in the ignorance which permits one to go on doing wrong in the comforting belief that yb doing so one is accomplishing one's duty / one's duty to the company, to the shareholders, to the family, the city, the state, the fatherland, the church. For, of course, poor Hansen's case wasn't in any way unique; on a smaller scale, and therefore with less power to do evil, he was acting like all those civil servants and statesmen and prelates who go through life spreading misery and destruction in the name of their ideals and under orders from their categorical imperatives. — Aldous Huxley

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.' — Stephen Colbert

All beauty, resonance, integrity,
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position. — John Ashbery

I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time. — Jim Butcher

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart. — Yuri Milner

Everybody's got a story, Anna. — Rob Buyea