Otiose Crossword Quotes & Sayings

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace. — Louis R. Chenevert

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter. — Robert Green Ingersoll

As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story. — Byron York

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?' — Martin McGuinness

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man. — Hans Hofmann

There are many ways to inspire healing of the earth, all relating to the tree truth that everything is interconnected. We ourselves are trees. Each time we see a tree, outside us or within us, we can remember that they reflect the truth. Something deeply rooted, something with a strong trunk, something that sweeps the sky. — Nalini Nadkarni

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? — Lorrie Moore

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. — Alastair Campbell

It's meaning that is of no meaning. That paradox is the key to the meaning of meaning. To look for meaning
or the lack of it
in things is a game played by beings of limited consciousness. Behind everything in life is a process that is beyond meaning. Not beyond understanding, mind you, but beyond meaning. — Tom Robbins

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with. — Jeffery Deaver

You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from. — Arctic Monkeys

Capital wants to make us believe that we are what we sell. But we are what we give away. — Jorge Riechmann

The thing about enthusiasm-- especially Liam's particular brand-- was that it was catching. There would be nights I would simply sit back, watching, as he became more and more animated with his hands as he spoke, as if trying to shape his ideas out of the air for the rest of us to see. His words were coated with such unyielding hopefulness that it visibly inflated everyone around him. — Alexandra Bracken