Onaje Greene Quotes & Sayings

I hate war, for it spoils conversation. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon - parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing for some artificial connection while their own flesh and blood careened wildly through a chaotic and violent world behind their backs. The writer was even worse. He invented false worlds and peopled them with ghosts while his motherless son scanned the horizon for a human connection. It was shameful. What did a man need to lose to be shaken from his immersion in a dream? What terminal force could liberate him from the pursuit of phantoms and engage him in the living world around him? — Douglas Wynne

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! — John Rhys-Davies

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Leading, not following We've been trained to follow. In fact, the very nature of training has following built right into it. We follow instructions. We follow the rules. We follow the leader. The challenge in a six-billion person world is that we don't have a shortage of followers. Followers are easy to find, and the tools for compliance are more powerful (but less useful) than ever. Now the economy is demanding leaders. Human beings who can engage in what it really means to be a person - to forge connections, to see a path and to make a difference. — Seth Godin

In my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. — Susan Mitchell

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr

Judaism offered no Shivah for lost love. There was no Kaddish to say, no candle to burn...no injunction against listening to music or going to work. — Julie Orringer

You wear nothing but you wear it so well. — Dave Matthews

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations. — Kim Gordon