Odia Coates Quotes & Sayings

Sly and reckless, compulsive and bold. The goat-god, with hoof and smile and hairy ears, satyr at the helm of the Play Pen. Love him, understand him, forgive him, lead him shyly to Freud, or Jesus. Or else take the contemporarily untenable position that evil, undiluted by any hint of childhood trauma, does exist in the world, exists for its own precise sake, the pustular bequest from the beast, as inexplicable as Belsen. — John D. MacDonald

I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa. — Noel Coward

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation. — Noreena Hertz

Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under. — Kelli Russell Agodon

The world is hungry to hear the truth ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us? — David O. McKay

Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity - quite another to find yourself living in one. — Emily Croy Barker

You should never just do something because it's what others expect of you. You have to go out there, find your own voice and forge your own path. It's too easy to walk through the tunnel that's already been dug. — Jim Sullos

I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much. — Adam Sandler

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena. — John Burnside

For a man, he has to learn how to get along without a woman for periods of time. For a woman, she has to learn how to get along without a man for periods of time. That's how men and women learn to be able to get along with each other. — Art Hochberg

The world is coming to an end in 1950. — Henry Adams

I watched him depart, steeled myself and then walked over to Kanin, who hadn't moved from his place in the corner.
"That was interesting." he mused in a toneless voice as I joined him along the wall. "I assume that last display was solely for my benefit? — Julie Kagawa

But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky