Abes Oddysee Sayings

#1. The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Herodotus

#2. I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Charles Edison

#3. The GPS still has return coordinates programmed, although when I crank over the engine, I get the "reprogramming route" message. I hate the tone of these things-it manages to be mechanical yet condescending at the same time. All systems have it. Some frustrated engineer's idea of a joke, I suppose.

Jeanne C. Stein

#4. Sit in the pigpen with people of ill intent, and see how quickly you, too, start to stink.

Bonnie Lyn Smith

#5. Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

Y. C. James Yen

#6. On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

John C. McGinley

#7. Seasons come and go, but our love will always continue to grow.

Brooke Cumberland

#8. Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. Yes, Miss Manette is going to be married. But not to an Englishman; to one who, like herself, is French by birth. And speaking of Gaspard (ah, poor Gaspard! It was cruel, cruel!), it is a curious thing that she is going

Charles Dickens

#10. I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

#11. The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

Henry Louis Gates

#12. The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Frank Herbert

#13. Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

Lucretius

#14. When it comes to work, I am focused. I work like a maniac.

Anushka Sharma

#15. We can live in and from the Nature and these Will accept us.

Wij kunnen in en van de natuur leven en deze accepteert ons.

Jan Jansen