Okreek Quotes & Sayings

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness. — Don Rickles

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club. — Jack London

And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone! — Rodney Dangerfield

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world. — Ban Ki-moon

Bleh," she said out loud. — Liane Moriarty

I don't know if I'm brave. — Sacha Baron Cohen

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them? — James Aquilone

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top. — Dhani Jones

Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. — Cesare Beccaria

Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to 'hasten the inevitable,' not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion. — Daniel Dennett

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. — Henry Rollins

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters' souls, was our generation's anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age. — Richard Corliss

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work. — Tony Robbins