Okelly Library Quotes & Sayings

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ... — David Mazzucchelli

The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time. — Olaf Stapledon

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it. — Yoko Ono

House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that; — J.K. Rowling

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now. — Mary E. Pearson

And for two weeks I was banged up with a Hobbit who only spoke Elvish," said Jess. — Sue Limb

Don't lose youself on the way to the top. — Jack Welch

It's far easier to shut yourself off from people than to love them. If you keep your heart surrounded by strong walls, no one can get close enough to you to break it. — Julia Quinn

Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools. — Harry Browne

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

What if in skipping the pain, I was missing my lessons? — Glennon Doyle Melton

Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending. — Peter Ackroyd

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. — Steven Bochco