Ohura Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes," Joe said after a bit, "it's just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that's what you're not, anymore. — Megan Hart

The purpose of conflict is to restore harmony... — Brent N. Hunter

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them. — Mike Ditka

The tritone - an augmented fourth (or, in hazz parlance, a flatted fifth) - is a difficult interval to sing and has often been regarded as having an ugly, uncanny, or even diabolical quality. Its use was forbidden in early ecclesiastical music, and early theorists called it diabolus in musica ("the devil in music"). But Tartini used it, for this very reason, in his Devil's Trill Sonata for violin.
Though the raw tritone sounds so harsh, it is easily filled out with another tritone to form a diminished seventh. And this, the Oxford Companion to Music notes, "has a luscious effect ... The chord is indeed the most Protean in all harmony. In England the nickname has been given it of 'The Clapham Junction of Harmony' - from a railway station in London where so many lines join that once arrived there one can take a train for almost anywhere else. — Oliver Sacks

As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am. — Grace Gealey

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life. — Alberto Giacometti

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. — Susannah York

When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open). — Andy Roddick

The human journey is a continuous act of transfiguration. — John O'Donohue

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further. — Nicole Galland

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. — Dave Eggers

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them. — David Agus

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen