Okos R K Quotes & Sayings

For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceans burned. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Hope, I've discovered, is a sad nuisance. Hope is a horse with a broken leg. — Lyndsay Faye

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. — J. D. Hayworth

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair. — Ted Turner

I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier. — David Sedaris

Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won't forgive I hope never to witness. — Paul Doiron

Public and private organizations all over the world have studied the mechanics of sexism within science and have concluded that they are complex and multifactorial. In my own small experience, sexism has been something very simple: the cumulative weight of constantly being told that you can't possibly be what you are. — Hope Jahren

Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form. — Margot Robbie

It's funny how our desires often tend to circle around the whims and fancies of others rather than the self. One school of thought has a convincing explanation that this is because we live in a society that makes us want to be pleasing to others more than the self--a rather selfless trait, so to think. But then there is this other theory which eventually concludes that we do all of this to please no one but the self...because praise and compliments are what the devil thrives on, and we are in no significant way any different. — Priyanka Naik

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' — Thornton Wilder

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. — Alma Guillermoprieto

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism. — Lilian Jackson Braun