Orette Quotes & Sayings

To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now. — E.F. Schumacher

The last begonias wilting in the chalet's hanging baskets laced the air with a lemon and cinnamon fragrance. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love. — Steve Pavlina

I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end of time, a hundred light years from then, someone else, some distant future creature, might be looking back at a preserved image of me and my father at that very moment in my bedroom. — Karen Thompson Walker

I want to go on living even after death! — Anne Frank

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability to convert earned income into passive and/or portfolio income. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota. — Ron Carlson

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong. — Alexandra Breckenridge

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went. — Enos Slaughter

I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town. — Lesley Gore

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. — Billy Bragg