Obin Quotes

#1. Hickory, have you ever lied to me?" I asked. "I do not believe you are aware of me or any Obin ever lying to you," Hickory said.

John Scalzi

#2. (Obin: "it," not "he" or "she." Because they're hermaphrodites. That means male and female sex organs. Go ahead and have your giggle. I'll wait. Okay, done? Good.)

John Scalzi

#3. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Alan Ball

#4. I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

Bipasha Basu

#5. An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Ayn Rand

#6. And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?

Herman Melville

#7. All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. More than attitude, posture has also been used throughout history to communicate one's status in society.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#9. Some people self-soothe in retail outlets; I bask in pink wine.

Courtney Maum

#10. My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I can sing like an angel, and growl like a lion. I am not owned. I am music.

C.D. Reiss

#11. Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Erykah Badu

#12. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

King Solomon

#13. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. She hated him then. Hated the way he stripped her bare. The way he knew her failings before she knew them herself.

Sarah MacLean

#16. Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

#17. Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

Herbert Read