Odus Blackboard Quotes & Sayings

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. — I. F. Stone

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women. — Nora Ephron

I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all. — Gillian Roberts

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand. — Tommy Mottola

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. — Win Butler

Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret thought woozily, the getting-there part. The mayor, and then the president, had begun saying that. "And where are we going?" the mayor had asked. "When will we get there? What will happen to us once we get there?" He really wanted to know. — Tao Lin

If you have lost a lot of time, then, increase your speed and make up for the time lost — Sunday Adelaja

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence. — Christopher Hitchens

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny. — Ilana Mercer

With determination and dice, I am God. — Luke Rhinehart

After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you? Peradventure you will develop into lexicomaniacs. — E. Norman Torry

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us ... — John Geddes

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. — Nick Drake

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood