Oaklyn Quotes

#1. I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever ... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

Matthew Quick

#2. Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

Olivia Munn

#4. It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

Ron Rash

#5. It is a longstanding South-
ern tradition to call someone a "storyteller" as a polite
way of calling him a liar.

William R. Cobb

#6. If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Paulo Coelho

#7. The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

James Victore

#8. Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

Francis Chan

#9. If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Christy Hall

#10. There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

David Farland

#11. Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

Jurgen Moltmann

#12. Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin