Obalue Quotes & Sayings

Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education. — Dora Russell

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident. — Daniel Kahneman

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent. — Loretta Young

The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short. — Aldous Huxley

Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear. — Suzy Kassem

Music is about bringing light to others. — Avi Kaplan Pentatonix

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering. — Kevin Kelly

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back. — Lee Labrada

To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity. — David Chang

This world looks to us the natural and simple one, and so it is--absolutely fitted to our need and education. But there is that in us which is not at home in this world, which I believe holds secret relations with every star, or perhaps rather, with that in the heart of God whence issued every star, diverse in kind and character as in colour and place and motion and light. To that in us, this world is so far strange and unnatural and unfitting, and we need a yet homelier home. Yea, no home at last will do, but the home of God's heart. — George MacDonald

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. — Margot Fonteyn

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'
As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was. — Paulo Coelho

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds. — Isabella Bird

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world. — Jacqueline Novogratz

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring. — Eric Burdon