Odies Quotes & Sayings

Honour and courtesy and justice ... they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims. — Robin Hobb

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds." — Renata Adler

From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story. — Frank Bruno

The Spirit continued to stir and declare, You cannot be afraid to face the wolf at the door. Don't let the fear paralyze you. When you get in fear and get paralyzed, sometimes somebody has to come and get you. Whatever is swarming around you that thinks you are dead. you tell it that you are not dead! Tell the vultures you are not dead and that they have to move on! Say, 'Vultures, I am not the meal you thought I was going to be! — Chuck Pierce

Excuse me, I must go and putt — P.G. Wodehouse

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful. — Vanna Bonta

You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you? — Benjamin Button

Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable. — Lauren F. Winner

I tend to stay healthy because I've been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when you're healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them. — James Maslow