Odelle Hamilton Quotes & Sayings

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways. — Shirley Jackson

Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy. — Christopher Bond

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops. — Winston Graham

Doggone thing could make a preacher cuss." I yanked out the muffin pan and slammed the oven shut. — Lois Lavrisa

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. — Rainn Wilson

I've learned that creating a healthy, active environment for kids helps build the foundation for a successful future. — Mo Williams

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness. — Tzvetan Todorov

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do
the actual act of writing
turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward. — Anne Lamott

Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The heart is perverse, and it is cruel. I hate the heart and seems to hate me. — Douglas Coupland

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. — Michael Gambon

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice. — Leona Lewis

His hatred for the world was carved into his heart. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are. — Kobe Bryant

Man ... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe