Ottesen Museum Quotes & Sayings

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward. — Mencius

He said you were frigid?" She nodded. "Oh, honey, that word should be stricken from every dictionary in existence. There is no such thing. Just men who don't know what they're doing." He leaned toward her, kissed her throat, and said, "I'm not one of them. — Patricia Ryan

Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women — Ford Madox Ford

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. — Frank Abagnale

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy. — S.E. Hinton

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified. — Lesley Ann Warren

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain. — Frank Luntz

Frustration that is unrecognized, unrepresented, cannot be met or even acknowledged; addiction is always an addiction to frustration (addiction is unformulated frustration, frustration too simply met). What, then, is the relationship, the link, the bond, the affinity between frustration and satisfaction? How do we find ourselves fitting them together or joining them up? There may, for example, be something about frustration that makes it resistant to representation, as though our frustrations are the last thing on earth we want to know about. — Adam Phillips

It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative. — Neil Gaiman

Success is knowing your God given life purpose and pursuing it Passionately, Persistently, and Consistently until you die. — Tom Cunningham

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. — George McGovern

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane. — Jim Gaffigan

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain. — Link Wray