Okurrrr Quotes & Sayings

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it. — Jane Hamilton

108. You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way. — Maynard James Keenan

Blood is thicker than water, but family isn't just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don't have those things, I don't care what the blood says. You're not family. — Seanan McGuire

The arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is a far more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislature. The inflation tax has a fantastic ability to simply consume capital. It makes no difference to a widow with her saving in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation, or pays no income taxes during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leave her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 120 percent income tax, but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent. — Warren Buffett

I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too. — Catherynne M Valente

It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy. — Michelle Sagara West

If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same. — Bob Costas

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. — Sean Bean

I kept my attention fixed on Quinn, blinked twice so he would come into focus, — Penny Reid

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't. — Veronica Roth

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? — Pascal Mercier

Not all paths lead to God, but God can lead any path to himself. This God will dine with anyone. — Ricky Maye

I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society. — Charlene Li