Ostendaise Quotes & Sayings

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place. — Neil Diamond

Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view. — Kiran Nagarkar

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment. — Gregory Benford

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way. — Constantin Stanislavski

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris. — Gabrielle Zevin

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that. — Kevin James