Ohios Quotes & Sayings

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. — Elliott Carter

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics. — G.H. Hardy

Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this — Joseph Heller

I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that! — Becky G

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so. — Neil Gaiman

No question I would speed for cracks and weed
The combination made my eyes bleed. — Raekwon

Who needs a fairytale? In the end, I only want to be happy with a guy I love, and who loves me just as much. That's all I need. — Cherrie Lynn

Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view. — Sheryl Sandberg

The Teller Cares About You. — F.D. Lee

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

In this little booklet, which had belonged to a maternal great-uncle of ... mine, who spent some time working as an office clerk in northern Italy towards the end of the last century, everything seemed arranged in the best of all possible ways, quite as though the world was made up purely of letters and words and as if, through this act of transformation, even the greatest of horrors were safely banished, as if to each dark side there were a redeeming counterpart, to every evil its good, to every pain its pleasure, and to every lie a measure of truth. — W.G. Sebald