Otto Octavius Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done. — Earl Wilson

My father taught me how to track, how to read the ground and the trees. He taught me that everything has a language, that if you knew the language, you could make the world talk. The grass and the dirt hold secrets, he'd say. The wind and the water carry stories and warnings. — Victoria Schwab

Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without thinking, "I was just wondering if you've ever been kissed by a beautiful young girl?"
I went still redder as he shouted with laughter. With a broad grin, he said "Many times, madonna. But alas, it does not help. As you see. Ribbit. — Diana Gabaldon

When the road you're on begins to crumble, forge ahead - better it crumble behind you than ahead of you. — John Avery

I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time. — Mark Webber

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions. — Gerard Arpey

Mother why does the River not rise
It is not the River's time
Why does the seed not sprout
It is not the seed's time
Why does the rain not fall
the leaf not unfurl itself
Where is the hind and why does she not graze the fields before us
it is not their time

The River knows its time
The seed knows its time
The rain the leaf and the hind
They know their time

The River will rise the seed will sprout
The rains come down and the leaves unfurl
The hind will bring her children to graze before us
All in their time — Megan Whalen Turner

My altars are the mountains and the ocean. — Lord Byron

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff. — George Jones

By the time we stopped for the night, Billy Milsap was as big as an ocean liner. — Adam Rex

Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance. — John Shelby Spong

What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable. — Ted Martinez

A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments. — Vironika Tugaleva