Oduor Otieno Quotes & Sayings

The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely. — Donna Tartt

For wolves and pigs and bears, thinking that they're human is a tragedy. For a cat, it's an experience. — Terry Pratchett

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you? — Stephen Colbert

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted. — John D'Agata

Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good."
"Oh, yes. When it's rations."
"Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things."
"Oh, I be mean, be I?"
"Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I guess it doesn't make sense to hate you anymore. As Lorelei is so quick to say, the past is the past and it can do us no harm unless we let it. (Jack) — Kinley MacGregor

Once you've read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. — Jessica Zafra

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime. — Nancy Grace

Say a day without the ever. — William Shakespeare

Whoever has not thanked people, has not thanked God, said the Prophet Muhammad — Hamza Yusuf

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists. — Gordon England

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. — Joe Andrew

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together. — Daniel Smith