Oaked Quotes & Sayings

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas — Damon Hill

From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things. — Anna Quindlen

She leaned toward him and hissed, "I told you what would happen if you crossed the line and tried to get into my shorts! The only reason I'm not making you hurt even more is because someone might wonder about the screams. From now on, you're going to sleep on the deck." The tone in her voice was deadly as she continued. "If you ever try anything like that again, my next problem will be working out how to dispose of your corpse. — Robert Adrian

I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government. — Evan Williams

Once, after a long night of sex and alcohol consecutively and concurrently, he told me somewhat drunkenly that he measured my rages by how long he perceived it would be between the time he made me angry and the time I would sleep with him again; this had made me so furious with him that I'd managed to withhold sex for nearly a full ten minutes.
(Tristan in White Lines) — Shukyou

If you have superheroes or characters that exist in the same world, and you're doing movies of them, wouldn't it be fun to put a couple of them together in one movie? Audiences love that. It's a natural thing to do that. — Stan Lee

Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses — Fela Durotoye

One minute you're a happy fourteen-yearold - good at everything you try, popular, fun - the next you're a freak with wings — Cynthia Hand

I held her as the rain beat down on the car.
I held her tighter as it got worse.
I let go of her when it cleared.
And then I drove her home.
All while not saying a Goddamn word - because really - what was there left to say?
She said she couldn't be with me. — Jay McLean

In New York, everyone just looks hurt. It seems more honest. Maybe I just identified with them. — Anonymous

Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness. — Mary Oliver

We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn't make sense. — Alex Bledsoe

First we are tested on our strengths, then we our strengths are tested — Marianne

I nod"Maybe.But I'm pretty sure mom won't consent to a field trip across the country with my hot boyfriend.Especially not back to Florida."I clamp my mouth shut so fast my teeth should be chipped. He grins."You think I'm hot?"
"my mom thinks you are." Except, mom's not the one blushing right now. — Anna Banks

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so c that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. 17 d You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go. — Anonymous