Ollis Near Quotes & Sayings

One of these days," she said, "I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think - try to determine what character of a woman I am, for, candidly, I do not know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it. — Kate Chopin

Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job. — Jay Kay

In fact, the people who live in this town exist - millions of them. They just don't happen to all live in the same town. — David Levithan

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me. — Jimmy Wales

Since the day we met, I haven't wanted anyone but you, never looked at another woman, never thought about one. It's always been you Olivia. — Nina Lane

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. — Mel Torme

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence? — Susan Howe

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man. — Richard Llewellyn

Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face. — Simon R. Green

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books. — Matthew Specktor

Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow. — W.P. Kinsella

The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, stars implode, and they build heavier elements out of that. And those heavier elements are reconstituted in the heart of other stars, eventually. — John Rhys-Davies

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people. — Jane Jacobs