Otis Birdsong Quotes & Sayings

Love is the first wisdom in life. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You forget I'm a goddess," she hissed. "Your goddess."
And a bitch as well. But then, weren't all goddesses afflicted with bitchery? — Kresley Cole

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write. — Lydia Davis

If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything? — Yann Martel

Life is a journey of a cell enjoying the beauty of this universe. — Debasish Mridha

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding. — Richard Russo

I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object. — Olafur Eliasson

I don't see where people get all this bull about the kid who's gonna be President and being a newsboy made a President out of him. It taught him how to handle his money and this bull. You know what it did? It taught him how to hate the people on his route. And the printers. And dogs. — Studs Terkel

If I could turn into a wisp of smoke, I could slip into them and disappear. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Wherever there was a scrap of soil amongst the ravaged crags, emaciated trees struggled to cling on: a poignant metaphor for the way so many Nepalis eke out an existence, defiantly surviving on less than nothing. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand. — Thaksin Shinawatra

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup. — Alan Hansen

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows. — Chris Ware