Ozzie Boone Quotes & Sayings

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that. — Tom Hollander

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. — Gifford Pinchot

Well, if that's the case, then it's not silly to see rejection as a gift whose contents and character may not be known until a later time. But that doesn't mean that the gift isn't real. It doesn't mean that the gift isn't precious. And it doesn't mean that the gift isn't helping us to subtly shift our thinking from willful expectation to grateful acceptance. We want our journey to be directed by God, not our adamant insistence that things go our way." "I may be guilty of that very tendency," I — Tavis Smiley

It's nice to be able to forget. — Thomas Bangalter

The truest philosophy contains the most contradictions. — Marty Rubin

Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me? — Kristin Cashore

Ozzie Boone ... insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow.
By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries. — Dean Koontz

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H.L. Mencken

Ephemeral and useless, flowers exemplify the gratuitousness of occasions that mean expenses and luxury; blooming in vases, doomed to a rapid death, flowers are ceremonial bonfires, incense and myrrh, libation, sacrifice. — Simone De Beauvoir

Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something. — Dean Koontz

Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself. — Penelope Lively

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. — Quintilian

He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round. — Kate Atkinson