Norman Ollestad Quotes

#1. I felt tears welling up behind my eyes and tried to blink them back.

Norman Ollestad

#2. There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm
a sliver of light buried in the darkness.

Norman Ollestad

#3. That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.

Laura Dave

#4. My dad had previously spoken about 'fighting through things to get to the good stuff' or some such concept, and as he shook the salt water out of his curly brown hair, he talked more about people 'giving up and missing out on fantastic moments'.

Norman Ollestad

#5. Most rebellions and revolutions end up with the oppressed group coming to power and inflicting the same evils they endured on some new group that they are now oppressing, I argued. Violence, hoarding power and resources, that's the basic human M.O.

Norman Ollestad

#6. I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

Olivia Newton-John

#7. Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that ... running sometimes if there's a sale.

Jessica Simpson

#9. You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

Nikki Sixx

#10. The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

Leah Stewart

#11. Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Frustration is a poignant reminder of ongoing vitality. Enjoy it while you can't.

Mark Rogerson

#13. He had a way of coaxing me to greater and greater heights, promising a burst of exhilaration as long as I could bear the fear. It felt like the definition of true love. And I didn't see how I could ever find it again.

Norman Ollestad

#14. I needed something else, some kind of juice.
He gave me a hooked-eyebrow glance and took a showy swig of the water.
Mmm, he said, smacking his lips. Water-juice. It's fantastic.

Norman Ollestad

#15. Beautiful things were sometimes mixed up with treacherous things, they could even happen at the same time, or one could lead to the other, I thought.

Norman Ollestad

#16. If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

Sean O'Casey

#17. every day. Two weeks ago the Boones came down with a summer flu. They had fevers, were lethargic, and had no appetite.

Brad Manuel

#18. It's a nice fantasy life, she said when I was done. Well, I'm living it, so it's more than a fantasy. What about love? She took off her bandanna, loosing her blond waves. Don't you have someone you love? Why would I go do something like that?

Norman Ollestad

#19. I reframed the situation

Norman Ollestad

#20. But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, and only it.

Jessica Knoll

#21. People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

Bryant McGill

#22. My oldest son used to say his stomach had angries when he felt sick.
I always pictured an all night fight club for finger foods!!

Neil Leckman