Ohmes Quotes & Sayings

I think of what wild animals are in our imaginations. And how they are disappearing - not just from the wild, but from people's everyday lives, replaced by images of themselves in print and on screen. The rarer they get, the fewer meanings animals can have. Eventually rarity is all they are made of. The condor is an icon of extinction. There's little else to it now but being the last of its kind. And in this lies the diminution of the world. How can you love something, how can you fight to protect it, if all it means is loss? — Helen Macdonald

I would like to be a polyglot. — Rachel Maddow

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer. — Justin Cronin

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah,I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart — Tom Waits

He imagined that the clock's second hand possessed awareness and knew that it was a second hand and that its job was to around and around inside a circle of numbers forever at the same slow unvarying machinelike rate ... — David Foster Wallace

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. — J.K. Rowling

The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down. — Ben Elton

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood. — Rajiv Gandhi

Sleep is my friend and is the only place in this world where I don't get into fights with other people. — Chelsea Handler