Ocellated Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before you know where you are you are on a gigantic book-binge. My brief case was full to bursting and I had bundles of books under both arms. I was bowed down by the weight of them. — R.T. Campbell

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult. — Caprice Bourret

I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other. — Joshua Bell

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen

I feel like the sport is coming to me. — Brad Keselowski

When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state of mind in which you are are released from desire and fear. And your life becomes harmonious, centered and affirmative. Even with suffering.

The Buddhists speak of the bodhisattva - the one who knows immortality, yet voluntarily enters into the field of the fragmentation of time and participates willingly and joyfully in the sorrows of the world. — Joseph Campbell

In deep of suffering, I found my soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated. — Stanley Fish

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. — Harper Lee

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies. — Ozzy Osbourne

I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past. — Edward M. Lerner