Oilskin Quotes & Sayings

With a touch of sarcasm. Glass is an amazing material. Versatile, — Maria V. Snyder

When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work. — Brandon Mull

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. — Dalai Lama

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory.
I found neither. I found something which haunts me still.
The great bus swayed as it sped. The black street gleamed. Through the window a hundred faces fluttered by as though the leaves of a dark book were being flicked over. And I sat there, with a sixpenny ticket in my hand. What was I doing! Where was I going?
("Same Time, Same Place") — Mervyn Peake

Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question ... So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn. — Mario Cuomo

writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window. — Helen Macdonald

I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth. — J. Lynn

A huge blue and white umbrella unfolded out of the vehicle, followed by two legs clad in a masculine-sized pair of gumboots. The driver nudged the door shut and ploughed through the downpour like a striped galleon, only his oilskin coat and denim-clad calves showing. — Tracey Alvarez

He was the worst decision she'd made so far, but she couldn't keep from making it again and again. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'll show ye to your chamber."
"So long as it's also your chamber," William said, shifting his oilskin pack on his shoulder. "Or has it slipped your mind that ye're my wife? — Mia Marlowe

Lifetime corporate employment is dead; we're all free agents now, managing our own careers across multiple jobs and companies. And because today's primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields. — Keith Ferrazzi

The Way of the Ascetics — St Shenouda Monastery

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything. — Benjamin Franklin

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B.C. Forbes

Whoever lives like me doesn't die: he terminates, wilts, devegetates. The place where he was remains without him being there; the street where he walked remains without him being seen on it; the house where he lived is inhabited by not-him. That's all, and we call it nothing; but not even this tragedy of negation can be staged to applause, for we don't even know for sure if it's nothing, we, these vegetable manifestations of both truth and life, dust on both the outside and the inside of the panes, grandchildren of Destiny and stepchildren of God, who married Eternal Night when she was widowed by the Chaos that fathered us. — Fernando Pessoa

Eternity is the Absolute present. — D.T. Suzuki

In these modes, energy is at best regarded by architects as a set of necessary quantifications, bureaucratic mandates, and checklists rather than as a fundamental agent in novel formations of architecture. — William W. Braham

A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life. — John Milton