Trocou Oterno Quotes & Sayings

There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly. — Christopher Dodd

You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person? — Jess Walter

You're a beautiful mess to me," he said. "Like wildflowers, growing up in the middle of a tire, along the side of the road. You're not like prize roses, carefully planted in the right soil and pruned back at the right times. You're wild, and you're free. And you smell like heaven. When I look at you, I believe in ... I don't know. I just believe. — Mimi Strong

If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. — Ronald Reagan

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

IMBALANCE
Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positives
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
*It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it.* — William Shakespeare

Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. — Alfred Hitchcock

Sometimes the price of doing the right thing is higher than we realize when we do it. — Rachel Aaron

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. — Rachel Carson

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can. — Devdutt Pattanaik

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do. — Robert Greenwald

With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it! — Edan Lepucki