Oshell Houston Quotes & Sayings

And I knew what I wanted: I would settle in a hill station and write my novel. I had visions of myself at a table on a large veranda, my notes spread out in front of me next to a steaming cup of tea. Green hills heavy with mists would lie at my feet and the shrill cries of monkeys would fill my ears. The weather would be just tight, requiring a light sweater mornings and evenings, and something short-sleeved midday. Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming the reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? What need did I have to go to Portugal? — Yann Martel

Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining. — Vera Farmiga

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. — Ray Romano

In aeternum felicitas vindactio. Defending happily ever after. — Seanan McGuire

If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life. — Aaron Gillespie

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day. — Naomie Harris

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it. — Donald Trump

The only way to beat temptation is to give in to it — Paulo Coelho

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me. — Amanda Borden

It is, it seems to me, to stop one's eyes and understanding to maintain that there is no design in nature; and if there is design, there is an intelligent cause, there exists a God. People — Voltaire