Oakland Ia Obituaries Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter if you don't love me right away," he said. "Just give me a chance. — Joan Kilby

Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely. — Terrence Rafferty

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger Dijkstra

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them. — Bre Pettis

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders. — Stephen Vizinczey

Obsession. It starts with a spark. A flicker. At the strike of a match. Lying dormant in most of us, obsession feasts on the fumes, breathes in the smoky scent, curing around and in on itself. Building. We pet it, nurse it into existence. It is ours. All ours. A coveted perfection. And when it refuses to be ignored, it rages. It roars to life. A building inferno. Consuming. We are but pawns to its deceptive power. Though we attempt to guide it, caress it tenderly into a loving beauty, it can not be controlled. It's a haunted, vengeful lover. Like a wildfire devouring life within it's path, we can only follow it's carnal trail. — Trisha Wolfe

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim. — Davis Bunn

Strange things happen when we stand face to face with our enemy, don't they, Phaedra of Alonso? — Melina Marchetta

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. — Tom Ford

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing. — Richard Sibbes

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him. — Matthew Henry

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it. — Bong Joon-ho

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. — Octavia Spencer