Ottensteiner Quotes & Sayings

There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study. — Daniel Albert Wyttenbach

I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina. — Andy Serkis

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. — Chester Himes

And how do you explain to your wife that you don't have all the answers, and that you might not know what you are doing, and that you are afraid you are going to fail? How do you admit that you are most afraid that, one day, she'll walk - and replace you with an educated, professor-type guy, who shares her same interests, schedule, and the way she was used to living, especially when all of your friends, your business associates, even your own damned brother, are all just waiting for you to mess up so they can have a shot at taking her away from you? How do you look the woman you love in her eyes and tell her that? — Leslie Esdaile

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, ThouShalt not forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Look out there. Can you feel them? Incredible to think - other human beings out there. You strain your eyes the whole day long, see nothing, hear nothing, still can't believe it somehow - but know it's true. Other warm bodies, hearts pumping blood. That ought to make us feel less lonely, or safer, it seems. Then why is it so shocking? Because - they don't belong here. The possibility of life in this place is more terrifying than the place itself. Can it be that we're really here? — Ted Tally

There's something about depression that allows you (or sometimes forces you) to explore depths of emotion that most "normal" people could never conceive of. — Jenny Lawson

I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality. — Robin S. Sharma

The finest mode of transport known to man. — Adam Hart-Davis

Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese. — Peter Drucker

I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis. — Ladyhawke

If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices. — Neil McDonald