Oxenford Treasure Quotes & Sayings

Isn't this your life? That ancient kiss
still burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeat
so accurate, the church bell simply seems
a pure announcement: ring and no one comes?
Don't empty houses ring? Are magnesium
and scorn sufficient to support a town,
not just Philipsburg, but towns
of towering blondes, good jazz and booze
the world will never let you have
until the town you came from dies inside? — Richard Hugo

You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. — Barack Obama

I guess I figured that as long as I was with people I loved, I was home. It didn't matter where we were or what kind of place we lived in. We had each other and that was enough. — Jody Hedlund

Romer's idea, like all good ideas, was very simple: false information can be just as useful, influential, as telling, transforming or as damaging as true information. — William Boyd

The day we live in fear and allow our minds and hearts to worry about situations that may never occur is a day he is winning. These moments of fret and hopelessness are a complete waste of my precious time and my precious life and marriage. The same is true for your life, my friend. We are experiencing restoration, and we needn't look beyond God for our truth and courage. — Cindy Beall

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. — Sean Penn

Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' ... 'you need to protect this victory.' — Pope Francis

And one asks oneself where are one's dreams. And one shakes one's head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And again one asks oneself what has one done with one's years. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing. Some more years will pass, and after them will come gloomy solitude; then will come old age trembling on its crutch, and after it misery and desolation. Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will fade and die and will fall like yellow leaves from the trees. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog. — Phil Gramm

First of all, a**hole, I'm not into voodoo and if I was I wouldn't use it for this. Second, we came over here for a reason and we aren't leaving until you hear us out. Jennifer was good and pissed. Finding a Nyhiya was supposed to be a happy time. Not this bulls***. Stupid Alpha males. — Shakuita Johnson

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic
the abnormally chromatic entity in "The Colour Out of Space" being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in. — H.P. Lovecraft

I believe I can make all the money I've missed. But I can't regain the time with fans and family. — Gucci Mane

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are. — Epictetus