Mike O Hearn Quotes & Sayings

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg
'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it? — Richard Yates

His eyes widended again, then flicked to something behind me. He shook his head, looked back at me. His voice low, intimate, insistent. "Come back from this, Merit. You don't want to fight me."
"I do," I heard, in a voice that was barely mine. "Find steel," she advised him.
We advised him.
He stood there a long moment, silently, still, before nodding. Someone offered him a blade, a katana that glinted in the light. He took it, mirrored my stance - katana in both hands, body bladed.
"If the only way you'll come back from this is to be bloodied by it, then so be it."
He lunged. — Chloe Neill

The loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools ... It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction. — Meghan O'Rourke

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good! — Steve Martin

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public. — William Empson

An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain. — Frederick Dodson

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations! — F Scott Fitzgerald

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. — Ric Ocasek

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. — P.T. Barnum

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. — Frank Church

Lemons, lemonade! It all depends who's squeezing! — Karen Faris