Reichmann Okawville Quotes & Sayings

It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does. — David Rakoff

The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia
when was the past so hauntingly accessible?
but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there. — Geoffrey O'Brien

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go. — Gia Coppola

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference. — Lucinda Roy

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes

Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways. — Richie Norton

Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country. — Roald Dahl

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire. — Bonnie Raitt

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment. — Robert Barany

Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents ... you name it. Treat all plants with respect! — Janet Macunovich

I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are. — Charles M. Schwab

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov