Matt Okine Quotes & Sayings

In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty years. In Georgia such a "crime against nature" could lead a practitioner to life imprisonment at hard labor- a penalty far more severe than having sex with animals, which in Georgia was punishable by only five years. — Gay Talese

Possibly none at all: it's a fallacy to assume that whatever is is that way for a good Darwinian reason. Just because a desire or practice is widespread or universal doesn't necessarily mean it confers an evolutionary edge. — Michael Pollan

Recalling his mother's endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had thought that mothers never had to sleep. — Robert A. Caro

My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of things' kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on in times of distress. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it. — Rick Warren

I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with - the way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be. — Pat Conroy

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent. — Edwin Gaustad

I'll tell you a story, ( ... ) A story about books, dragons and roses, as befits the date, but above all, a story about shadows and ashes, as befits the times ... — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish! — Wally Pleasant

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with ... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. — Robert Motherwell

Because he's the one guy who knows me better than anyone -- which means he could hurt me more than anyone too. I've never given my heart to someone. It would be the dumbest thing I could ever do, to offer it to a guy who's already walking away. — Roxy Sloane

The principle of democracy is freedom, the principle of war is discipline; each requires the absence of the other. — Will Durant

I thought you were some sort of camp counselor," Julian finally said to Kelly. "Work with troubled kids and all that." Kelly pursed his lips. "Yeah. It's called Camp Asskicker.
I'll give you a 'you tried' badge next time I see you. — Abigail Roux