Mary Oliver Fern Quotes

#1. I felt curiously aloof from my own self. No temptations maddened me. The plump, glossy little Eskimo girls with their fish smell, hideous raven hair and guinea pig faces, evoked even less desire in me than Dr. Johnson had.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire

Mike Hawthorn

#3. The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.

Marissa Mayer

#4. Violence of any kind, once it starts, is like fucking a gorilla-you ain't done till
the gorilla's done.

Craig Ferguson

#5. I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

Ellen J. Barrier

#6. Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

George Soros

#7. Ever man dies, but not every man truly lives

Ralph Barger

#8. Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.

Abraham H. Maslow

#9. We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

Jim Messina

#10. All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Boethius

#11. There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

John Lennon

#12. It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Zora Neale Hurston

#13. Against me earth and hell combine, But on my side is power divine; Jesus is all, and He is mine!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon