Oulton College Quotes & Sayings

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. — Sophocles

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after. — Ernest Hemingway,

Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along. — Bryant McGill

She has that euphoric feeling you get at the airport after you've checked in your luggage. Nothing can stop your journey. — Liane Moriarty

But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand. — Werner Erhard

I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert. — John F. Kerry

Sometimes you just have to trust people. — Alex Mack

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel. — Edward St. Aubyn

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it. — Ann Landers

I'm very unorganized. — Taylor Momsen

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories. — Marilyn Hacker

I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there. — Curtis Mayfield

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am? — Oriah Dreamer

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly. — Kazuo Ishiguro