Oary Quotes

#1. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

George Eliot

#2. I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

Alan Moore

#3. Rest you fair, good signior;
Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

William Shakespeare

#4. The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Michel De Certeau

#5. Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

Edward Gibbon

#6. Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

Paul Clitheroe

#7. I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

Samuel Colbran

#8. I noticed something: if I put a theme park in a story, my prose improved.

George Saunders

#9. It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.

Megan Smith

#10. He was like a long beaker in chemistry class, and the top was always bubbling over because some interesting process was taking place inside

Meg Wolitzer

#11. When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.

James Henry Breasted

#12. Be still:
There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away his halo with his cares,
A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Thomas Merton

#13. If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

John Madden

#14. It also has to do with my profession. In my profession, true relaxation is a necessity.

Herman Koch

#15. Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing ...

Kanye West

#16. Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

Michio Kaku