Ooby Quotes & Sayings

People unite against things. People fight when they're scared and threatened, not to change, not for the future. They get it wrong in the other Tales. People don't fight for heroes: they fight for the monsters. For fear of the monsters in the dark. — Leah Bobet

But I withhold my pen; for vain were the fancy, by treatise or sermon or poem or tale, to persuade a man to forget himself. He cannot if he would. Sooner will he forget the presence of a raging tooth. There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self -- God's idea of us when he devised us -- the Christ in us. Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which, most of us are so fond and proud. And that self no man can find for himself; seeing of himself he does not even know what to search for. — George MacDonald

was January 1939. — Markus Zusak

You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might. — Roy Orbison

There are very few fishermen left today. — Paul Watson

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong. — Evgeni Plushenko

Dad was the biological vessel who helped put my soul into this body, — Lisa See

I don't know what it means to live. — Haruki Murakami

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit. — John Fante