Odland Steven Quotes & Sayings

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down. — Margaret Atwood

When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all. — Barbara Pym

What I think doesn't matter. Which is the only reason he can tell me things. — Margaret Atwood

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children. — Billy Graham

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! — Greg Anderson

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. — Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it's best not to say anything. — Miljenko Jergovic

My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever. — Action Bronson

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. — Hermann Hesse

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes. — Paul Auster

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British. — Banks

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. — Jerry Saltz

Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech? — Jim Butcher