Perused Oak Quotes & Sayings

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. — B.B. King

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. — Antonio Porchia

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions ... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic. — Barry Goldwater

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities. — Robert Breault

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany. — Martin Landau

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye? — Charles Lamb

He's such a workaholic. Never stops to reflect, smell the roses. It's just kill, kill, protect, protect with that man. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

I don't want features, I want value. I don't want benefits, I want value. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run! — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program. — Tony Evans

Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved. — Choa Kok Sui

Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental. — Louisa May Alcott

I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?' — Annie E. Clark