Oberholtzer And Filous Quotes

#1. It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

Philip Neri

#2. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

Arthur Eddington

#4. What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.

Umberto Eco

#5. Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#6. A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

Teresa Bloomingdale

#7. Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Janette Rallison

#8. If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

Olivia Thirlby

#10. Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Joan Miro

#11. How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?

Markus Zusak

#12. There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless.

Doris Lessing

#13. My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Joshua Ferris