Orality Website Quotes & Sayings

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her. — Sarah Koenig

Have so many merry little pots bubbling away in the fire of my enthusiasm: Myron, future trips, modern poetry, Yeats, Sitwell, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, villanelles, maybe Mlle, maybe The New Yorker or The Atlantic (poems sent out make blind hope spring eternal - even if rejections are immanent), spring: biking, breathing, sunning, tanning. All so lovely and potential. — Sylvia Plath

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience. — Richard Davenport-Hines

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error. — Philip Sidney

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. — Ernst Moritz Arndt

As far as responsibility goes, no one really wants it -- but all of us are responsible to the community we live in & its laws. — Truman Capote

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Kathryn Kuhlman

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work. — John Wooden

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama. — Jorge Garcia

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it. — Jules Shear

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young. — Arno C. Gaebelein