Opulentus Quotes & Sayings

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible. — Al Jaffee

We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana. — Giannina Braschi

When you're constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are. — Michael Soll

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone. — W.B.Yeats

You don't look so hot, Adrien."
"Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day."
His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it. — Josh Lanyon

I suppressed a shudder at the image. Blood is so very gross to me. If I
give myself a paper cut, I nearly hyperventilate. — Rachel Hawkins

There are 58 million people with some kind of disability in America, so it's the largest minority, really, in America, and it lags behind in education and economics and jobs, so outside of 'CSI' and outside of my music, I serve on a couple of boards, and I'm trying to be a part of the movement that changes this. — Robert David Hall

Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference. — Logan Lerman

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation. — Marsha Blackburn

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance. — Emile Zola

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing. — Haddon W. Robinson

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker

What offended you this time? His charming manner? His too broad smile? His well-groomed appearance?"
"I don't like him," she said with her usual maddening half-smile.
"Don't like him! He's fashionable and handsome, with fortune to spare-"
"So is my reticule. Unfortunately, it also has more personality, and nearly as much intelligence. — Sabrina Jeffries

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die. — Louis C.K.