Olcay Art Quotes & Sayings

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone. — Sam Shepard

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman. — Alexander Ferrick

I'm a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult. — Clara Mamet

Fire is like greed, my comrade. It spreads across the world, thinking only of itself, seizing everything it sees, and ruining everyone's fun. — Lemony Snicket

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends. — Nelson DeMille

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real. — Dana Frank

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. — Herbert Hoover

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality. — Emily Levine

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait. — Abbie Cornish

After his sisters were taken away, the Japanese occupying force sent my grandfather to Imperial Schools. My first language is Japanese, he tells me. English far away. Sometimes, right after he told me, I would look at him and wonder what it felt like, to have the print of your enemy all the way inside you, right into the way you shaped your thoughts. — Alexander Chee

Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances. — Pope Benedict XVI

Seem like it be a mighty hard thing to change someone's mind," he said. "Most folks won't change their mind unless they have a change of heart first." "Well, then ... how do I change their heart?" "You can't, Missy Caroline," he said gently. "Only Massa Jesus can change folks' hearts. — Lynn Austin

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to ... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty. — Samuel Johnson