Ovnanian Quotes & Sayings

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. — Alan Furst

I was a bad boy as a child. — Andy Dick

We find what we are looking for. — Marshall Sylver

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band! — Ringo Starr

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to. — Naomi Judd

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity. — RuPaul

We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists ... who often confuse their religion with their science. — John C. Eccles

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. — John Lubbock

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight. — Jack Nicholson

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! — Mary Shelley

To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world. — Evan Thompson

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining. — Holbrook Jackson

The whole process of raising a family is one of perfecting our own lives. That which we transmit consciously and unconsciously to our children in their rearing in the home and in the community must be the best within us. — Henry D. Moyle

Your coat is beautiful, but where's your brain? — Farid Al-Din Attar

Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes."
Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. "Don't tell me," he said. "The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something."
Magnus sat up. "What's gotten into you?"
Alec stared at him. "Am I the newest thing in this apartment?"
"I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He's only two."
"I said newest, not youngest," Alec snapped. — Cassandra Clare