Oleinik Greene Quotes & Sayings

The power of waiting is gracious. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers. — Mick Jagger

Poetry: that can mean an Atemwende, a breathturn. Who knows, perhaps poetry travels this route - also the route of art - for the sake of such a breathturn? Perhaps it will succeed, as the strange, I mean the abyss and the Medusa's head, the abyss and the automatons, seem to lie in one direction - perhaps it will succeed here to differentiate between strange and strange, perhaps it is exactly here that the Medusa's head shrinks, perhaps it is exactly here that the automatons break down - for this single short moment? Perhaps here, with the I - with the estranged I set free here and in this manner - perhaps here a further Other is set free? Perhaps the poem is itself because of this ... and can now, in this art-less, art-free manner, walk its other routes, thus also the routes of art - time and again? Perhaps. — Paul Celan

She told me of your two chief faults, your vanity, and your being, as she termed it, "all wrong about money". I have a distinct recollection of how I laughed. I had no idea that the first would bring me to prison, and the second to bankruptcy. — Oscar Wilde

About this grass now. I didn't finish telling. It grows so close it's guaranteed to kill off clover and dandelions-"
"Great God in heaven! That means no dandelion wine next year! That means no bees crossing our lot! You're out of your mind, son — Ray Bradbury

The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Are you here to experience life or think about it? — Jaggi Vasudev

If I get a new idea today - or any day - I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do - I'll do it. — Jerry Spinelli

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. — Paul Scott

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually. — Jentezen Franklin

My mentor, [Ingmar] Bergman, when we worked on stage, he said you can't convince a thousand people at the big stage where we were working. You can't convince everybody, but just pick one every night that you perform for and make sure that he or she will have an experience that alters their life in a more positive way. So, just one every night. That's worth all the struggle and screaming. — Peter Stormare

In America we have an idolatry called the "adulation of youth." Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it. — Billy Graham

I feel kind of exhilarated. And kind of emptied out. Which may seem like an overreaction, but then, in case you hadn't picked it up, I am the Queen of Overreaction. — Sophie Kinsella

The volcanic bubbling of everything in one pan made it very difficult to hear a crying child on the doorstep. — Ainslie Hogarth