Onlook Quotes & Sayings

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next. — Rudyard Kipling

What can you take from me which is not already yours? — Bruce Lee

Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top — Kamran Niazi

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar. — Antje Traue

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it. — Tim Ferriss

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion. — Paul R. Ehrlich

I suppose that someday, suddenly, I will be transferred to another age, for example the chivalric or the bronze. The hope is, of course, that I arrive in period dress but not resemble a contemporary luminary, for I wish to simply onlook. But, more probably, thanks to chronologically garbled garb, or my mistakable face - which will lead to expectations of competence - I will have to explain my occurrence. That explained, I will have to explain my age, The Present, also known as "The Future" in the past. This is why I am studying our great inventions and advances: to be ready for questions. — Amy Leach

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears. — Thomas Friedman

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue. — Larry David

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend. — Henri Matisse

A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, "Yeah, it really kind of was, wasn't it? Was that a Salamander?" "Pretty sure," I said. "They're so much bigger than in those Xanth books. — Jim Butcher

I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress. — Natasha Henstridge

All across the multiverse there are backward tribes* who distrust mirrors and images because, they say, they steal a bit of a person's soul and there's only so much of a person to go around. And the people who wear more clothes say this is just superstition, despite the fact that other people who spend their lives appearing in images of one sort or another seem to develop a thin quality. It's put down to over-work and, tellingly, over-exposure instead.
*Considered backward, that is, by people who wear more clothes than they do. — Terry Pratchett

Males approach with caution, first assessing whether the female has had anything to eat lately. If she looks well fed, the male has some hope of getting through the ordeal alive. — Amy Stewart