Octoroon Quotes & Sayings

Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. — Don DeLillo

I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Then I will go to the Acme or Keating's or the Big Gold Bar and sit down and draw my cards and fill an inside straight and win myself a thousand dollars. Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. — Glendon Swarthout

A willing spirit is divine-being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience. — Mahatma Gandhi

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith

I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy. — Hugh Grant

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. — Stanislav Grof

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough. — Wayne Dyer