Okanagans Quotes & Sayings

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story. — Chester Brown

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist. — Hark-Joon Lee

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see. — Mirabel Osler

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous. — Albert Einstein

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime. — Eric Lindros

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self. — Jean Maalouf

I remember a very nurturing, safe environment: everybody knew who I was, who my parents were, who my grandparents were, what part of Russia we were from originally. That was a really comforting feeling. Non-Mennonites, when they see that aspect of it, think it's a beautiful thing, and it is, but there's so much going on besides. — Miriam Toews

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. — Thomas B. Macaulay

They were an odd pair- but odd pairs were what kept life interesting. — Daniel Waters

Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

There have existed, and for the time being still exist, many cultures whose members refuse to cut the vocal cords of the planet, and refuse to enter into the deadening deal which we daily accept as part of living. It is perhaps significant that prior to contact with Western Civilization many of these cultures did not have rape, nor did they have child abuse (the Okanagans of what is now British Columbia, to provide just one example, had neither word nor concept in their language corresponding to the abuse of a child.) — Derrick Jensen

I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special' — Erin Wasson

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. — Chaim Potok