Orito Quotes & Sayings

You got stuck in a wall?" she said. "For how long?"
"A few minutes. Half an hour. An hour at the most. Maybe two. Or a day. Remember that day I called Valkyrie and told her to take the afternoon off? Yeah, I was stuck in a wall. — Derek Landy

The cat looks at her and meows, Feed me, for I am beautiful. Orito — David Mitchell

Still, when Fern fell asleep on Preston's shoulder during the reenactment of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre, Sam almost lost his lunch, even though they hadn't had lunch yet. — Jennifer Anne Kogler

Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
OF anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.
Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry. — Anne McCaffrey

Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter. — David Mitchell

Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception. — David Mitchell

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. — Russell Baker

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

The paradox of learning how to make better decisions is that it requires developing a comfort with doubt. There — Charles Duhigg

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet. — David Mitchell

Women who were so skinny that their hip bones stuck out just pissed me off. If I wanted a bumpy ride I'd take my bike out to the train tracks. — Bethany Lopez

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. — Muhammad Ali

Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing. — Cassandra Clare

I don't give a damn about the civilians. — Richard M. Nixon

Shift your consciousness to a higher consciousness to see the beauty and joy all around you. Immerse yourself in beauty and will see everyone will be eager to join you. — Debasish Mridha

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it. — Meg Collett

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you. — Claire Danes

When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged,
we believe that we are the surgeons.
But time passes, and one sees the whole more clearly,
and now I perceive us as surgical instruments used by the world. — David Mitchell