Ovayok Quotes & Sayings

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. — Ernest Hemingway,

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours. — George Eliot

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself. — Jodi Picoult

You dance the troika in the opening of my veins and I only protest with a murmur. — Malak El Halabi

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something? — Tom Cruise

Attosecond?" Gaston asked.
"I'm guessing it's a very, very small fraction of a second," I said.
"One quintillionth of a second," George said, without raising his head from his reader.
Jack pondered him. "Have you started memorizing random crap again to amuse yourself?"
"No, I'm connected to the wireless," George said. "I googled it. — Ilona Andrews

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen. — Anthony Burgess

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history. — Peter Schjeldahl

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? — Pierre Schaeffer

I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority - you've got to speak with it too. — Taylor Mali

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. — Edith Wharton

Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed. — O.J. Simpson

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted ... — Sigfried Giedion

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods ... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake ... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith ... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith. — Soren Kierkegaard