Ottens Quotes & Sayings

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world. — Bill Russell

employer, and might that not be a good omen of what — Madison Grace

So help me, if you turned me into a fucking Vampire, I'll bite your dick off! — Amelia Hutchins

There is no way to understand the character of the taboo rules, except as a survival from some previous more elaborate cultural background. We know also and as a consequence that any theory which makes the taboo rules ... intelligible just as they are without any reference to their history is necessarily a false theory ... why should we think about [the theories of] analytic moral philosophers such as Moore, Ross, Prichard, Stevenson, Hare and the rest in any different way? ... Why should we think about our modern use of good, right and obligatory in any different way from that in which we think about late eighteenth-century Polynesian uses of taboo? — Alasdair MacIntyre

Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how. — Nancy Kress

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. — John Oates

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me. — Kobe Bryant

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune? — Robert G. Allen

The truth; injected subcutaneously leaves distinctive marks on the root of the problem. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. — Sonia Rykiel

Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry. — Jennifer Clarvoe

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes. — Jane Hirshfield

I'm into emulation, not imitation. — Chuck Inglish