Ostavilac Quotes & Sayings

The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless. — Frederick Lenz

I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes. — Bill Jay

Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since it's no longer the 1990s?" The sword didn't reply (duh), but I imagined it was humming at a more interrogative pitch, like, Such as what? "I dunno. Something pocket-size and innocuous. A pen, maybe?" The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. — Rick Riordan

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. — Guy De Maupassant

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. — James Wolcott

Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have ... — John Powell

But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39 — Stephanie Coontz

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years. — Xavi

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter. — Holly Near

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. — Mario Vargas-Llosa