Ohkoshi Kid Quotes & Sayings

In Memory of M. B.

Here is my gift, not roses on your grave,
not sticks of burning incense.
You lived aloof, maintaining to the end
your magnificent disdain.
You drank wine, and told the wittiest jokes,
and suffocated inside stifling walls.
Alone you let the terrible stranger in,
and stayed with her alone.
Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.
Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn
at your dumb funeral feast.
Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I,
I, sick with grief for the buried past,
I, smoldering on a slow fire,
having lost everything and forgotten all,
would be fated to commemorate a man
so full of strength and will and bright inventions,
who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me,
hiding the tremor of his mortal pain. — Anna Akhmatova

Prove that a real man doesn't make a show of what's his. It just is." "Is — Renee Ahdieh

Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house. — Elizabeth Bishop

For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests. — Jeff VanderMeer

In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me. — Frances Beinecke

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything? — L.M. Fields

... and then showed Owen the reservation. Four people.
"But we're only two," Owen said.
"Yeah, but my ego needs more space than that. — Aleksandr Voinov

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever. — Laozi

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun. — Natalie Maines

The fears you run from run to you. — Robin Sharma

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke. — Alexei Shirov

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch. — Rosie O'Donnell

The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event. — Iannis Xenakis

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett