Obliquity Def Quotes & Sayings

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying. — Leonardo DiCaprio

He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom — Leo Tolstoy

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you. — Judd Nelson

I never want to be the poster guy. It's not me. — Ilya Kovalchuk

We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right up against it, at times indistinctly, and that it always will be, just the way that suffering will always ravage hearts. We want good novels ... And even if there is only one such book per decade, ... only one ... every ten years, that would be enough. We want nothing else. — Laurence Cosse

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer. — Jean-Luc Godard

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. — Lawrence Lessig

Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it. — Shaun White

The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person. — Sri Chinmoy

My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore. — Hank Stuever

Between Two Harbors, Reflections of a Catalina Island Harbormaster, tells of my involvement in the death of Natalie Wood, to the many unique and interesting details of life on Catalina Island. — Doug Oudin

Were genuine aliens to find us ... the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the requirements of their environment. It was only for the convenience of the costume department of Star Trek that people believed in humanoid aliens. — Thomm Quackenbush

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range. — Elvis Stojko

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him. — Gus Van Sant