Oilman Bum Quotes & Sayings

Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos? — Ben Shapiro

I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy

Depending on her mood, Judy Garland can still be more frightening than any demon or devil you might run across. — Chuck Palahniuk

I don't care if I have to be here every fucking night. I'm going to have him. — Ella Frank

A people always ends by resembling its shadow. — Rudyard Kipling

The principal advantages of living in your station's section house is that it is cheap, close to work and it's not your parents' flat. The disadvantages are that you're sharing your accommodation with people too weakly socialised to live with normal human beings, and who habitually wear heavy boots. The weak socialisation makes opening the fridge an exciting adventure in microbiology, and the boots mean that every shift change sounds like an avalanche. — Ben Aaronovitch

If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end up being childishly anti-scientific, and childishly anti-religious, and you miss the very complex interaction [they share] — Cornel West

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me. — Kirsten Dunst

I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me. — Rollo May

Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't deserve forgiveness. — Adriana Trigiani

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic. — E. M. Broner

You see, in real life, there are no happy endings, because real life, real love, has no ending. So all of this ... This is our happy beginning. — Cassia Leo

My responsibility is to truth and beauty. — Amiri Baraka

People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.' — David Zaslav

To recognize bullshit,
nose is better than ear. — Toba Beta