Okkur Hlakkar Quotes & Sayings

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself. — Dwayne Johnson

When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees. — Bindi Irwin

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back. — Catherine Hicks

That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. — Brandon Sanderson

Some people go shopping - I cut myself. — Angelina Jolie

In writing I try to pare down the descriptive bits. If I feel that I could say something in as few words as possible, then I would rather do it than to go on padding. One should describe sufficiently to give the reader a sense of what one feels, but not at the same time overwhelm the reader in any way. For example, I feel that if you use lots of adjectives they have a mutually cancelling effect. If you can describe a scene well enough, without having to use far too many words, I would rather do so. — Arthur Yap

Still he plied the lash without stint upon my poor body, until it seemed that the lacerated flesh was stripped from my bones at every stroke. A man with a particle of mercy in his soul would not have beaten even a dog so cruelly. — Solomon Northup

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive. — Hayao Miyazaki

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. — Israel Zangwill

Fiction is the truth in the lie. — Stephen King

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it. — James Rozoff

"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless." — Guy Kawasaki

My mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy. — Louise Erdrich