Olla Quotes & Sayings

My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness - what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new! — D.H. Lawrence

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it. — Eric Braeden

We've had a deal of bad poetry, haven't we? Suggesting the climax to this thrilling and literary spectacle. The Olla Podrida, my sweet-hearts, will now be set on the fire. — Dorothy Dunnett

Being a novelty had its advantages. — Jessica Savitch

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened. — Georges Simenon

There are no chairs or tables in my tiny room. Vera says that only savages sit down. Only a prone position is beautiful and becoming to the body. She has spread carpets on mattresses along the walls and scattered pillows over them...

("Thirty-Three Abominations") — Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE. — David Bromberg

Buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband. — Helen Smith

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly. — Elizabeth Gaskell