Oems Ct Quotes & Sayings

When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films. — Susanna White

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them. — Stephen Leacock

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind. — Chrissie Hynde

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. — Anne Edwards

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. — Erin Morgenstern

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. — Christofer Drew

When authors write best, or at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them which becomes their master, which will have its own way, putting out of view all behests but its own, dictating certain words, and insisting on their being used, whether vehement or measured in their nature; new moulding characters, giving unthought-of turns to incidents, rejecting carefully elaborated old ideas, and suddenly creating and adopting new ones. Is it not so? And should we try to counteract this influence? Can we indeed counteract it?
from a letter to G.H. Lewes, 12 January 1848 — Charlotte Bronte

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed. — Gertrude Jekyll

They say you can't remember pain - the fact of it, yes, but the truth of it, the physical texture of agony? Gone and forgotten. Which makes it easy to forget that pain hurts, that the wounded life isn't always worth living. — John Joseph Adams

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily. — Channing Tatum

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community. — Adelaide Hoodless

For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious. There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result. — Niccolo Machiavelli