Optik Journal Quotes & Sayings

I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul — Frank Herbert

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop. — Maya Angelou

My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem ... a little crazy to you. — Stephenie Meyer

Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations. — William Graham Sumner

Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge. — Gilles Deleuze

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama. — Stephen Moyer

My guess [is] ... that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment ... I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics. — Roger Rosenblatt

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health. — Dalai Lama

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein

Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us. — Richard Flanagan