Olivatis Quotes & Sayings

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN — Daniel H. Pink

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift. — Orrin Woodward

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks

Where's your dad now?" Thomas asked.
"He's gone."
The word gone echoed all over the reservation. The reservation was gone itself, just a shell of its former self, just a fragment of the whole. But the reservation still possessed the power and rage, magic and loss, joys and jealousy. The reservation tugged at the lives of its Indians, stole from them in the middle of the night, watched impassively as the horses and salmon disappeared. But the reservation forgave, too. Sam Bone vanished between foot falls on the way to the Trading Post one summer day and reappeared years later to finish his walk. Thomas, Chess, and Checkers heard the word gone shake the foundation of the house. — Sherman Alexie

You make good coffee ... You're a slob, but you make good coffee. — Cher

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago ... — Mary Mapes Dodge

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise! — John Dryden

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. — Norm MacDonald

...words don't make what I make with him... — Kate Walsh

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest. — Olivia Newton-John

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better. — Marco Brambilla