Oppelo Quotes & Sayings

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come. — Helen Keller

I bought a warmer coat with many ingenious pockets. You put your hands in all of them. — Jenny Offill

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge. — Charles Bukowski

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism. — Robert Wyatt

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days. — Ellsworth Huntington

The couch was apparently built on the same principle as a Venus flytrap, because when I sat I was immediately sucked down into a deep plush cushion, and as I struggled to remain upright it occurred to me that this was on purpose, another silly little trick Acosta used to dominate people, like putting his desk in front of the bright window. Deborah apparently came to the same conclusion, because I saw her tighten her jaw, and pull herself forward with a jerk to perch awkwardly on the edge of the couch. — Jeff Lindsay

Saddened that I, a smart, semi-funny, nutty, loyal, good woman, could feel so negative about myself under all the smiling and humor, I felt the sting of tears in my eyes. The way I felt about my appearance was bad. Really freakin' bad. — Samantha Young

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know. — Robert Plant

The truest drive comes from doing what you love. — Peter Diamandis

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems. — Naguib Mahfouz

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. — I. King Jordan

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind. — Samuel Johnson