Oris Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to simplify complexity. — Jack Dorsey

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside. — Peter Drucker

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine? — Kurt Vonnegut

...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king. — David Willis McCullough

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself. — John Luther Adams

However, if you're cursed as I am with a love of storytelling and adventures in galaxies far, far away, and mythical creatures from fictional lands who are more real to you than actual people with blood and bones---which is to say, people who exist---well, let me be the first to pass on my condolences.
Because life is rarely what you imagined it would be. — David Arnold

You got a boyfriend or something?"
I hate it when he figures me out before I have a chance to do it myself.
Especially when I've been counting on at least seven more years of denial. — Steve Kluger

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. — Isaac Asimov

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. — Michael Levine

The things that are least important for our survival are the very things that make us human. — Savas Dimopoulos

Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts. — Agatha Christie

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. — Shana Alexander

My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right — Christopher Hitchens

The sun shines through the window And the sun shines through your hair It seems like you're beside me But I know that you're not there. You would sit beside this window Run your fingers through my hair You were always there beside me But I know that you're not there Oh, to be by your side once again Oh, to hold your hand in mine again Oh, to be by your side once again Oh, to hold your hand in mine again- — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm a perfectionist. — Kristi Yamaguchi