Ottosson Nina Quotes & Sayings

It didn't matter much what Dwayne said. It hadn't mattered much for years. It didn't matter much what most people in Midland City said out loud, except when they were talking about money or structures or travel or machinery - or other measurable thins. Every person had a clearly defined part to play - as a black person, a female high school drop-out, a Pontiac dealer, a gynecologist, a gas-conversion burner installer. If a person stopped living up to expectations, because of bad chemicals or one thing or another, everybody went on imagining that the person was living up to expectations anyway.
That was the main reason the people in Midland City were so slow to detect insanity in their associates. Their imaginations insisted that nobody changed much from day to day. Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of awful truth. — Kurt Vonnegut

And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye. — Arthur C. Clarke

I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' — Kristen Stewart

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. — Italo Calvino

I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them. — Earl G. Graves, Sr.

It seems that sin is geographical. — Bertrand Russell

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg

If you think there's a thing - anything - women didn't do in the past, you're wrong. — Kameron Hurley

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence. — George W. Bush