Onelia Cochran Quotes & Sayings

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting. — Frank Lampard

My songs of life are so secret that I can't find my tune. — Debasish Mridha

It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility. — Denise Mina

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives. — David Maister

Patriotism never demands obedience to the state but rather obedience to the principles of liberty. — Ron Paul

There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can you imagine? An Egyptian. That's inflation. This war," he said, leaning closer to her, "is all about money. — Leslie Cockburn

Fried twinkies? Paris nodded. Only once, I've never forgotten the experience. It's like heaven in your mouth, man. — Gena Showalter

I feel I understand Existence, or at least a minute part Of my existence, only through my art, — Vladimir Nabokov

O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long? — George Bernard Shaw

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. — Thomas Jefferson

My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying. — Curtis Jackson

The pirogues came with live turtles, and with fish, with cloudy beer and wine made from bananas, palm nuts, or sorghum, and with the smoked meat of hippopotamus and crocodile. The vendors did a good trade with our crew and the passengers down at the third-class boat; the laughter, the exclamations, and the argument of bargaining were with us all day, heard but not understood, like voices in the next room. At stopping places, the people who were nourished on these ingredients of a witches' brew poured ashore across the single plank flung down for them, very human in contour, the flesh of the children sweet, the men and women strong and sometimes handsome. We, thank God, were fed on veal and ham and Brussels sprouts, brought frozen from Europe. — Nadine Gordimer

Most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region. — Sarah-Patton Boyle