Olhasse Quotes & Sayings

The public is not interested in news in the public interest. — Terry Pratchett

I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory. — Glenn Hubbard

Laguna prided itself on being an artist's colony that accepted all classes and cultures, not merely tolerating eccentrics but delighting in them. — Dean Koontz

And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision. — Charlotte Bronte

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity. — Jennifer Garner

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks

We appear to have found a place where safe and dangerous are the same thing. — Rob Davis

There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form. — T Bone Burnett

So I leave hoping that it was merely a game that I have lost and not a lifetime. — Dimitri Zaik

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man ... California, I'm comin' home. — Joni Mitchell

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape. — Nathan Filer

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person. — Charlie Worsham

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself. — Charles Spurgeon

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times. — Albert Einstein

I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances. — Christian De Duve