Olisadebe Quotes & Sayings

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed. — Rabindranath Tagore

At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: This is my husband. He's benign. — Steve Martin

The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again. — Stephen Richards

After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right. — John Coltrane

There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies through the window. — Oscar Wilde

Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom. — Martin Amis

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive. — Edna Ferber

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you — Jack Kornfield

I want to see the stats for how many crosses there have been; it's been incredulous — Bobby Gould

With you away, it is as if all the letters in my life are scrambled into an anagram, and I will not be able to put all the letters in order and make sense of anything until you return. I never want to be apart from you again, Beatrice, except in the restroom, at work, and when one of us is at a movie that the other does not want to see. — Lemony Snicket

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. — Karl Urban