Ortells Editorial Quotes & Sayings

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.' — Victoria Legrand

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it. — Antony Jay

I happened to know for a fact that the whole of Belgravia nick were running a pool on how long I would last and how I would go - the options being death, medical discharge (physical), medical discharge (psychological), indefinite disciplinary suspension, sacked for misconduct, secondment to Interpol and, with just one vote, ascension to a higher plane of existence. I suspected the last one was a bit unlikely. Guleed — Ben Aaronovitch

A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa! — Zig Ziglar

If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance. — Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. — Theodore Dalrymple

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate. — Carly Fiorina

Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others. — Alcoholics Anonymous

The needs of the moment always trumped promises of the future, however enticing the latter. — Karl Ove Knausgard

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information. — Gilbert N. Lewis

People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents, compared with drought. To watch your land shrivel and die, year in and year out, to see beautiful fields turn to dust bowls, to watch your animals starve and die. To suffer all this, only to be then washed away in a flood, your home and your family treasures lost and destroyed. And then to pick up the pieces and start again. The farmers of the South are brave! — Sara Henderson

I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them - asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking.
My body replied, only after eating every bite of food: No deal, babe. — Elizabeth Gilbert

She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another. — Sarah Addison Allen

Acting is in your soul. — LaTanya Richardson