Oostlander Quotes & Sayings

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. — Billie Jean King

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life. — Ricardo Salinas Pliego

You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives. — Richard Doetsch

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. — David Hume

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say. — Joaquin Phoenix

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. — Paul Gauguin

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think. — Jessica Valenti

In order to fix the vocabulary, let us say that we will call knowledge-connaissance the system that allows desire and knowledge-savoir to be given a prior unity, reciprocal belonging, and co-naturalness. And we will call knowledge-savoir that which we have to drag from the interiority of knowledge-connaissance in order to rediscover in it the object of a willing, the end of a desire, the instrument of a domination, the stake of a struggle. — Michel Foucault

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world. — Edward Carey