Onalee Quotes & Sayings

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made. — Andy Goldsworthy

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. — Billy Higgins

When I need God most, He comes
to me the fastest and closest. When
I need the creation most, they run
from me the fastest and farthest. — Yasmin Mogahed

The future of desegregation was not just about reaching mere numerical diversity. It was about fostering radical diversity, the wild protean sort. It was about what might flower when people could really meet across the lines. The cover of the fifth volume of the Yardbird Reader, rendered in day-bright Oakland A's yellow and green, featured the collective caught as they laughed at someone's wisecrack. They looked simultaneously hip and welcoming. In this colorized vision of American renewal, everyone could share in the joy. — Jeff Chang

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace. — T.F. Hodge

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit. — Don Meyer

Joel Tippie, as well as Amy Ryan and Barb Fitzsimmons, for making these books so gorgeous Every. Single. Time. The amazing Brenna Franzitta, Josh Weiss, Mark Rifkin, Valerie Shea, Christine Cox, and Joan Giurdanella, for taking such good care of my words. Lauren Flower, Alison Lisnow, Sandee Roston, Diane Naughton, Colleen O'Connell, Aubry Parks-Fried, Margot Wood, Patty Rosati, Molly Thomas, Megan Sugrue, Onalee Smith, and Brett Rachlin, for all your marketing and publicity efforts, which are far too substantial to name. — Veronica Roth

James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song. — Alice Hoffman

Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this moment, when this pain is taking over my mind and my self. Pretty soon none of this will make any difference. — Thomas Ligotti

You cant have both.
Avian was right. Even though I didnt know how to handle feeling like this, I knew what I had been doing was wrong. I couldn't have both. It was unfair to both of them. And it was tearing me into two people.
But how was I supposed to choose? I felt a tie to both of them, a tie so solid I wasnt sure that even I was strong enough to sever it. — Keary Taylor

How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you? — Janet Dunnagan

Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. — Hermann Hesse

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.] — George Herbert