Oprah Favourite Quotes & Sayings

I have wife who understands, or even if she doesn't she at least pretends. — Malcolm X

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that. — Maria Semple

and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression. — Karen White

To see, feel, and understand the magic of life, always believe that life is beautiful and magical. — Debasish Mridha

I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. — Edward Abbey

I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm. — Method Man

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. — Georg Buchner

Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment. — Gary Zukav

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it! — Jane Elliot

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem. — William Osler

Twenty-four year olds were my new favourite thing. I needed to tell Oprah to put them on her list. — Alice Clayton

Animals are also poisoned. And there are indecencies — Yann Martel

I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative. — Brett Dennen

When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head. — Joe Hill

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality. — Sophie Marceau