Oleandrin Quotes & Sayings

Quiet is the shame of the sound that hungry makes. — The Paper Doll

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years) — Danny Lyon

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help. — Brene Brown

Jimmy may have only a few sentences in his repertoire, but he knows to keep going when pretty girls pay attention to him. — Ned Vizzini

A Millionaire becomes richer not when he earns his next Million but when he spends it on a Noble Cause.-RVM — R.v.m.

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. — Italo Calvino

In the Mountains, they cooked, too.
Joe Godwin made liquor in Muscadine. Moe Shealey made it in Mineral Springs. Junior McMahan had a still in ragland. Fred and Alton Dryden made liquor in Tallapoosa, and Eulis Parker made it on Terrapin Creek. Wayne Glass knew their faces because he drove it, and made more money hauling liquor than he ever made at the cotton mill. He loaded the gallon cans into his car in the deep woods and dodged sheriffs and federal men to get it to men like Robert Kilgore, the bootlegger who sold whiskey from a house in Weaver, about ten minutes south of Jacksonville. "I could haul a hundred and fifty gallons in a Flathead Ford, at thirty-five dollars a load," he said. Wayne lost the end of one finger in the mill, but he was bulletproof when he was running liquor, and only did time once, for conspiracy. "They couldn't catch me haulin' liquor," he said, "so they got me for thinkin' about it. — Rick Bragg

To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

such are the emotions of the human mind; an unavoidable event is going to happen, the mind says 'no', then if the event doesn't happen soon enough the mind says 'when?' Such is the paradox of having the privilege of consciousness. We think too much. — David York