Ortamas Quotes & Sayings

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write. — Doreen Cronin

We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something. — G.K. Chesterton

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone. — Kara DioGuardi

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. — Robert Breault

Think about the suffering we cause ourselves internally through getting angry or jealous. — Gyalwa Dokhampa

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. — Helen Rowland

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position? — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The odds are stacked against — Anonymous

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. — George Eads

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are. — Debasish Mridha

Champions have no off-season. — Dan Bailey

Louis and Regina found a tiny apartment on Eldridge Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, for $8 a month. Louis then took to the streets, looking for work. He saw peddlers and fruit sellers and sidewalks crammed with pushcarts. The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World. He was first overwhelmed, then invigorated. He went — Malcolm Gladwell

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. — Holly Near

On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light. — Colson Whitehead