Octavus Cohen Quotes & Sayings

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice. — Bela Karolyi

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life. — Sister Souljah

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions. — Roberto Bolano

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see. — Robert Beverly Hale

The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head. — Flannery O'Connor

Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, 'I'm a poor, miserable sinner.' I am not poor, I am not miserable and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I was and if I still am then Jesus died in vain. Amen? — Joyce Meyer

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe. — Jeannette Walls

Running efficiently demands good technique, and running efficiently for 100 miles demands great technique. — Scott Jurek

Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark. — Judith Miller

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome
so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.'
'God made you that, Aline. — Rafael Sabatini

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before. — Abelardo Morell

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows. — Alexandre Dumas

For Tolstoy ... anything that human beings do has its glory ... I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened. — Mark Van Doren

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant? — Pio Of Pietrelcina