Othis Old Quotes & Sayings

They go to work, attend a meeting
Write an equation, have a beer,
Hail colleagues with a cheerful greeting,
Are conscientious, sane and sincere,
Rational, able and fastidious.
Through hardened casing no invidious
Tapeworm of doubt, no guilt, no qualm,
Pierces to Sabotage their claim.
When something's technically attractive,
You follow the conception through,
That's all. What if you leave a slew
Of living dead, of radioactive
"Collateral damage" in its wake?
It's just a job, for heaven's sake. — Vikram Seth

There is nothing as bitter as this moment when you go out to the morning roll call--in the dark, in the cold, with a hungry belly, to face a whole day of work. You lose your tongue. You lose all desire to speak to anyone. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world. — Debbie Harry

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it. — Henry Miller

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. — Tom T. Hall

You can't think in nothing, nothing in reality is something. — Deyth Banger

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that it might not be sane for one to speak about himself for many, many, many years in a row. At the same time, I felt the story of 'Radiance of Tomorrow' pulling at me because of the first book. — Ishmael Beah

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. — Stephen Levine