Nancy Oleson Quotes & Sayings

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it. — Jose Padilha

I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special. — Natalie Dormer

Well, I must do't. Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit! My throat of war be turn'd, Which quier'd with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath receiv'd an alms! I will not do't, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth, And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness. — William Shakespeare

What most women live in, is fear of the next contraction, or they're reliving the pain of the one they just had. And nature really builds in these breaks, if you can be in the present and not feel the pain and not sort of anticipate the pain to come. — Lauren Bowles

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience. — Caroline Green

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone
journalist, student, academic
who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths. — David Edelstein

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. — John Updike

He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment. — Oliver Sacks

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one. — Raul Julia

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write. — Emmanuelle Beart

I don't know. I don't know what I'm supposed to be. Or how I find out. — Alexis Hall

Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design — Dieter Rams