Olivades Placemats Quotes & Sayings

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it. — Joshua Lederberg

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that. — Dave Keuning

The same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. — Henry David Thoreau

- 'twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this: - That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel. - THEOBALD. — William Shakespeare

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. — Charles Spurgeon

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue. — Samuel Richardson

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers

The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have. — Ethan Hawke

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose. — Og Mandino

You're an awful conversationalist," Amaranthe said. "How is it possible I prefer spending time with you?"
"Most people don't want to talk to assassins."
"I'm a unique individual."
"Yes," he said, deadpan.
"I'm never quite sure if you're complimenting me ... or not."
His eyes glinted as they passed a streetlamp. "Good. — Lindsay Buroker

Maybe there is a law after all. Of nature. Like gravity. An unwritten axiom that governs our emotional dealings. What you do comes back to you with twice the force, fuck it, three times the force. We are not punished for our sins we are punished by them. — Anonymous

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach. — David Gest