Majella Osullivan Quotes

#1. If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.

Bianca Walkden

#2. All readers have reading in common.

Will Schwalbe

#3. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

#4. He talked about what he believed defined a Real Man: someone who had honor, curiosity, respect for women, and took responsibility for his people.

Jeff Hobbs

#5. I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.

Neko Case

#6. No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly moment in a dark cellar where the countess wept and cried out protest while three wizards put the count to death, and then made court politics out of it.

Naomi Novik

#7. Profits, like sausages ... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Alvin Toffler

#8. Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

Charlie Munger

#9. In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Jonathan Swift

#10. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

#11. You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

Xaviera Hollander

#12. Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.

Barney Norris

#13. I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!

Clay Aiken