Ousterhouts Flower Quotes & Sayings

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create. — Marian Deegan

Jun Do held the book, felt its soft cover. "I could read some with you," she said. "Do you know of Christ?" Jun Do nodded. "I've been briefed on him. — Adam Johnson

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music. — Anthony Braxton

You can learn so much just by observing. — Jessica Williams

We like people who are similar to us. This fact seems to hold true whether the similarity is in the area of opinions, personality traits, background, or life-style. — Robert B. Cialdini

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. — Cat Power

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. — William S. Burroughs

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! — Virginia Woolf

There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences. — Tyler Blackburn

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. — Bruce Campbell

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick. — Jack McDevitt

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day. — John Tesh

She nodded shyly, still watching him with her huge blue eyes. Those eyes made him want to slay dragons for her. — Anna Zaires

Had not history always been an inhumane, unscrupulous builder, mixing its mortar of lies, blood and mud? — Arthur Koestler

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors. — Samuel Johnson