Oganj Markovac Quotes & Sayings

Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty. — Nancy Levin

There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a healthy natural red color. The heavy lines under them, her jowls, extended to the intersection of her lips and gave her a thick-lipped frown most of the time." The phrase "Her cheeks were thick and smooth" is normal English, but "[Her cheeks] held a healthy natural red color" is elevated, pseudo-poetic. The word "held" faintly hints at personification of "cheeks," and "healthy natural red color" is clunky, stilted, slightly bookish. The second sentence contains similar mistakes. The diction level of "extended to the intersection of her lips" is high and formal, in ferocious conflict with the end of the sentence, which plunges to the colloquial "most of the time. — John Gardner

Your style is your style and that's the only way you can shine. — Chukwuka Amu

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. — Dorothy Allison

Anticipating God's blessings is a great way to begin a new week! When we look for the things that could go wrong, we just may find what we had been looking for. — Diane K. Chamberlain

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics. — G.H. Hardy