Oarlock Sockets Quotes & Sayings

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne

'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds. — John Trudell

To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason. — Laurence Gonzales

Harrison Ford ... I love him. He's a man's man. — Sherilyn Fenn

Yet even the most hackneyed, shopworn science fiction or fantasy tale will feel startling and fresh to a naive reader who doesn't know the milieu is just like the one used in a thousand other stories. — Orson Scott Card

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement. — Nhat Hanh

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody. — William Ernest Henley

I like people who are being normal and being themselves. — Callan McAuliffe

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep. — Heraclitus

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

I never said I wouldn't come - only that I understood why you didn't want me to come.'
'You led me to believe you wouldn't be here. That you understood that I needed time to grasp the fact of your existence and I did not wish to do so in a public manner.' She fairly spit the words. 'Under the eyes of everyone in the ton. [ ... ] You lulled me into a false sense of well-being. Deliberately, I might add.'
'Perhaps. And while I rather like the idea of lulling you into anything, I did not lie to you. — Victoria Alexander

In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability. — Daniel Dennett

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess. — Lauren Oliver