Osanit Quotes & Sayings

I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all. — Garrison Keillor

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit. — Will Smith

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws. — Benjamin Carson

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation. — Peter Landesman

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. — Ann Beattie

My world shattered that day. I lost my best friend. I lost my heart. My shield. My soul. And buried it right along with his body. The boy who hadn't been who he said he was - the boy who'd protected me from my own family. The boy who took two bullets for me and paid with his life. Bang, Bang was the new soundtrack to my life. Welcome to the Mafia. — Rachel Van Dyken

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. — Viktor Yushchenko

They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say ... " — Bill Hicks

She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man? — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat. — Carol J. Adams

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts. — Cynthia Ozick

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led. — Amy Winehouse

I think falling in love should come with a warning label: CAUTION - side effects may include breaking up, accompanied by heartache, severe mood swings, withdrawal from people and life itself, wasted hours obsessing over bitter reflections, a need to destroy something (preferably something expensive that shatters), uncontrollable tear ducts, stress, a loss of appetite (Cheetos and Dr. Pepper exempt), a bleak and narrow outlook on the future, and an overall hatred of everyone and everything (especially all the happy couples you see strolling hand-in-hand, placed on your path only to exacerbate your isolation and misery). All above reactions will be intensified with the consumption of one or more alcoholic beverages. — Katie Kacvinsky

[...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more. — Douglas Coupland