Osnovum Quotes & Sayings

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders. — Elise Valmorbida

Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself. — Julian Fellowes

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas. — Ken Gillespie

Then centrifugal gravity took over, and with something close to majesty the skeletal spacecraft descended out of the repair bay as smoothly and elegantly as a falling chandelier. — Alastair Reynolds

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do. — Ralph Lauren

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. — Benjamin Jowett

Book publishers needed only to listen to Jeff Bezos himself to have their fears stoked. Amazon's founder repeatedly suggested he had little reverence for the old "gatekeepers" of the media, whose business models were forged during the analogue age and whose function it was to review content and then subjectively decide what the public got to consume. This was to be a new age of creative surplus, where it was easy for anyone to create something, find an audience, and allow the market to determine the proper economic reward. "Even well meaning gatekeepers slow innovation," Bezos wrote in his 2011 letter to shareholders. "When a platform is self-service, even the improbable ideas can get tried, because there's no expert gatekeeper ready to say 'that will never work!' And guess what - many of those improbable ideas do work, and society is the beneficiary of that diversity. — Brad Stone

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself. — L.M. Montgomery

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. — Winston Churchill

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while. — Troy Dumais

I'm just saying that money is made in so many more interesting ways now. — Stephanie Clifford

Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport? — Richard Dawkins