Omagah Quotes & Sayings

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. — Martin Van Buren

How very comfortable to know nothing. — Angelika Rust

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. — Jazz Feylynn

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool. — Rachel Kushner

Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well. — Joyce Carol Oates

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future. — Aloe Blacc

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. — Rick Pitino

Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives. — Elisabeth Elliot

Time demonstrates that Paradise is not cheap and that Hell is not futile. — Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it ... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. — Lydia Lunch

I'd like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Why was Simpson called "OJ" except in some kind of branding or headlinese that said, "Look, this guy is sweet, wholseome, and nourishing (and 'Orenthal' is just too fancy)? You can have him for breakfast." (And "Sweetness" and "Sweet" are nicknames often given to black men.) Is "OJ" that far away from Jell-O? Wasn't that extended advertising campaign a way of saying you can trust our pudding because Bill Cosby likes it - sweet, wholesome, and pretty? — David Thomson

He was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden.
He did not hide the obstacles from himself. — Victor Hugo

Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas. — Michael Longley

The taste
of rain
-- Why kneel? — Jack Kerouac