Richard Overton Quotes & Sayings

He sits on the edge of the couch, his hair damp and ruffled in every direction. I turn the page and unfortunately a lurid diagram of an erect penis glares up at me. "I am trying to be a bit more normal." He looks at the page. "How's it working out so far?" "I'm glad this isn't a pop-up book. — Sally Thorne

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. — Oscar Wilde

We tend to live up to our expectations. — Earl Nightingale

She stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open acknowledgment of his power to reduce her to helplessness by the pleasure he had the power to give her. — Ayn Rand

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got. — Janis Joplin

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. — Diane Cilento

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. — Charles Jencks

Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. — Abigail Adams

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out. — Slash

Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen. — Tohoru Masamune

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. — Gavyn Davies

The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen. — Doug Stanhope

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably — William Penn

Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder."He's telling the truth."
Simmon glanced over at him."Why would you say that?"
"He sounds more sincere then that when he lies. — Patrick Rothfuss