Olberte Quotes & Sayings

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.' — Gillian Welch

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. — Harri Holkeri

You are my life. It doesn't matter what I am, or what I've done, as long as you're mine. Nothing in the past matters. There is you, and nothing else." He didn't look at me but kept his eyes on his work. A cluster of taller buildings appeared ahead, and he headed for them. "My one job," he said, holding up a finger, "is to make sure you know how to protect yourself when they finally kill me. — C.D. Reiss

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness. — D. A. Carson

Orders were often given by those who lacked imagination. — Larry Correia

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people. — George Saunders

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult. — Emily Osment

They're all crazy, Oncat. Invisible armies, monster princes. Let's go set fire to something. — Leigh Bardugo

Meditation is when you sit down, let's say that, and don't do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something.
Somewhere we've developed the misconception that poetry is self-expression, and that meditation is going inward. Actually, poetry has nothing to do with self-expression, it is the way to be free, finally, of self-expression, to go much deeper than that. And meditation is not a form of thought or reflection, it is a looking at or an awareness of what is there, equally inside and outside, and then it doesn't make sense anymore to mention inside or outside. — Norman Fischer

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne