Presumed Ocular Quotes & Sayings

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing — Edwin Louis Cole

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head. — Gustave Flaubert

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites! — Osamu Dazai

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more. — Haruki Murakami

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows. — Jason Wu

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting. — Norah Jones

I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Crazy enough to think you will succeed, but sane enough to make it happen. — Eric Schmidt

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For instance, if a fish has 3,453 scales on its left side and 3,453 on its right side, which side of the fish has the most scales? The outside. They call it extrapolational thinking. — Pierce Brown

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he! — Robert Browning

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head. — Ozzy Osbourne

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended. — Pam Grier