Best Oscar Madison Quotes

#1. He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement.
"We were traveling anonymously for safety - " explained the magus.
"But surely - "
" - and then we were robbed on the road."
"Ah," said the king, "the danger in being anonymous.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. I was the future and shall be the past - I am a timeless, everlasting Now, so short I have no end, so long I have no duration.

Nanamoli Thera

#3. The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

Joel Kinnaman

#5. I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

Jan Egeland

#6. When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#7. I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him

Olivier Giroud

#8. Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount Jr.

#9. People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

Mark Ryden

#10. And tell your wife whatever you want, but don't make promises you're not going to keep. And don't knock yourself out over it; you didn't invent infidelity.

Marc Fitten

#11. If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.

Sharon Gannon

#12. Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

Alexander Lowen

#13. Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Harold S. Geneen

#14. The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Jose Saramago

#15. I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. It's either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

Neil Simon