Oomens Quotes & Sayings

She was so pretty it hurt — Kami Garcia

The Hindustani storyteller always knows when he loses his audience," he said. "Because the audience simply gets up and leave, or else it throws vegetables, or, if the audience is the king, it occasionally throws the storyteller headfirst off the city ramparts. And in this case, my dear Mogor-Uncle, the audience is indeed the king. — Salman Rushdie

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. — Harold Laski

History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect. — Mark Slouka

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. — Dalai Lama

Love in NOT blind. It teaches you to be blind and overlook your partner's mistakes and shortcomings. — Reetwika Banerjee

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it. — Marlena De Blasi

A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success. — Agatha Christie

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. — Harry Connick Jr.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? — Neal Stephenson