Okiedog Quotes & Sayings

It didn't seem like everyone could or should be honest at the same time - like maybe the structure of the world wasn't built to handle such mass amounts of truth. — Matthew Quick

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. — Alain Robert

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great. — Bernadette Peters

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky. — John Berger

I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in. — Enzo Ferrari

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. — Robert Henri

I didn't come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free. — George Foreman

None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most cases, we will never get to see what
difference we made, but living out loud isn't about noticing the results. It is about doing what we came here to do, for no reason other than that it is our life purpose. — Carolyn Baker

Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff. — Ava Dellaira

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth. — Victor Hugo

An amusing writer of the last century, justly complains of the want of definite words to express, distinctly and unmistakably, the different degrees of visits, with reference to their length. Whether the stay of the guest comprises ten minutes, an hour, an evening, a day, a week, or a month, still it goes under the vague and general term of a visit.

We propose, humourously, that if the stay of the guest exceeds a week, it should be called a 'visitation.' If it includes a dining, or a tea-drinking, or evening-spending, it may be terms 'a visit;' while a mere call can be mentioned as 'a vis. — Eliza Leslie

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. — Nikola Tesla

He [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there precisely because they did not have power, that those who did hold or had access to power tried to keep out of sight.
Halberstam, David; John McCain (2002-03-26). The Best and the Brightest (Modern Library) (Kindle Locations 448-449). Modern Library. Kindle Edition. — David Halberstam

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. — Henry Louis Gates

You are aware only of a small amount of the total information your eyes take in, and even less is processed by your conscious mind and remembered. — David McRaney