Tensie Oldfather Quotes & Sayings

We ourselves were made of the very same elements as composed the sun and stars, that some of my atoms might once have been in a distant star. But it frightened me too, made me feel that my atoms were only on loan and might fly apart at any time, fly away like the fine talcum powder I saw in the bathroom. — Oliver Sacks

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified. — Mahatma Gandhi

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs. — Russell Peters

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I've never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on. — Ray Bradbury

Of course I fall. Yet, I incessantly blame my falls on circumstance so that I can deny my own inadequacy and therefore remain my own god. And so, I am left to ask which will come first, the fall that kills me or the surrender that saves me? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat. — Morgan Spurlock

After all the many changes in my life, Olay Total Effects has helped me fight not just 1 but 7 signs of skin ageing. — Kris Aquino

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much. — Gwynne Shotwell

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto. — Josh Turner

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. — Tanith Lee

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation. — Scott Walker

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other. — Al Oerter