Oserd Quotes & Sayings

People prefer to believe what they want to be true. — Francis Bacon

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. — Penn Jillette

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution ... to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell. — Thomas Browne

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty? — Aldous Huxley

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion. — Hugh Black

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. — George Bernard Shaw

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. — Alphonse Karr

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. — Themistocles

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness — Peter Weiss

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability. — Edouard Boubat

I've seen a lot of movies where a kid my age finds out he's got magical powers and then gets invited to go away to some special school. Well, if I've got an invitation coming, now would be the perfect time to get it — Jeff Kinney

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well. — Michael Hirst

I started off at the Second City in Chicago ... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime. — Stephen Colbert