Ology Essentials Quotes & Sayings

There are times when Los Angeles is the most magical city on Earth. When the Santa Ana winds sweep through and the air is warm and so, so clear. When the jacaranda trees bloom in the most brilliant lilac violet. When the ocean sparkles on a warm February day and you're pushing fine grains of sand through your bare toes while the rest of the country is hunkered down under blankets slurping soup. But other times, like when the jacaranda trees drop their blossoms in an eerie purple rain, Los Angeles feels like only a half-formed dream. Like perhaps the city was founded as a strip mall in the early 1970s and has no real reason to exist. An afterthought from the designer of some other, better city. A playground made only for attractive people to eat expensive salads. — Steven Rowley

Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That's a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life. — Andrew Edwin Jenkins

I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things. — Aser Alas Jr.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in. — David Douglas Duncan

Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt — Ayn Rand

The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that. — Euginia Herlihy