Oration Hardware Quotes & Sayings

My father revisited Moby a lot. Maybe it's because there's no other novel in the whole world that better captures the Impossible Standard. — Niall Williams

If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they're fortunate and lucky beyond anyone's imagination. It remains a shock to me that I've had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I'd written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I've managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder. — Pat Conroy

That's right, stupid little voice, bash all my hopes and dreams. Shut up and tell me how to start a conversation with someone who doesn't speak. — C. Kennedy

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Coaches can't limit their coaching to those who they feel comfortable or friendly with. Instead, they must actively create coaching conversations with all teachers. — Diane R. Sweeney

Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few. — Husain Haqqani

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice. — Charles Barkley

I shall be obliged if you will send Nora and the girls to church every Sunday for the next month to pray for the continued health and strength of the messrs. gilliam, reese, snider, campanella, robinson, hodges, furillo, podres, necombe and labine, collectively known as the The Brooklyn Dodgers. If they lose this World Series I shall Do Myself In and then where will you be? — Helene Hanff

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. — Marilyn Monroe

Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out."
"Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom. — D.L. Orton

My stories are never quite good enough. — Anne Tyler

I could win you a goldfish."
"I don't think that's be fair to the goldfish," Gemma said. "I've had about a dozen of them, and they all seem to die within days of me getting them."
"Oh, yeah." Alex smiled crookedly. "I remember you making your dad bury them out in the backyard."
"They were my pets, and they deserved a proper burial."
"I better be careful around you." Alex stepped back from her cautiously, giving her a wide berth. "You're a goldfish mass murderer. I don't know what you're capable of."
"Stop!" Gemma laughed. "I didn't kill them on purpose! I was little. I think I overfed them. Out of love, though."
"That's even scarier," he teased. "Do you plan to kill me with kindness?"
"Maybe." She narrowed her eyes at him and tried to look menacing, making him laugh. — Amanda Hocking

Only by our incessant efforts is the demand for infinite, or unrhythmical, change kept up. — C.S. Lewis

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses
Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries.
Lyrically perform armed robbery,
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me ... — Inspectah Deck