Olicks Quotes & Sayings

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others. — Mother Teresa

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation. — Ahad Ha'am

I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands. — Jennifer Haigh

Guido: She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.
Roslyn: Maybe that's what killed her. — Arthur Miller

I kept thinking the rest of my sentence would emerge from the air passing through my vocal cords, but nothing happened. — John Green

If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in. — Zig Ziglar

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. — Jack Welch

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body. — Nenia Campbell

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors. — Alia Shawkat

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. — Elmore Leonard

Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels. — Mark Lynas

How do you not love a place where the faded beads from a parade six years before still hang in the branches of the live oak trees. — Rick Bragg