Odile Swan Quotes

#1. The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ...

Carol Shields

#2. We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

Ville Valo

#3. Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

Jimmy Buffett

#4. He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

Rahul Dravid

#5. Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Bob Beamon

#6. Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

John Dalton

#7. Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

Gordon Bell

#8. Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I'm still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#9. We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Dejan Stojanovic

#11. He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
Against temptation.

John Milton

#12. It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Aldous Huxley

#13. The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#14. Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Jane Hirshfield

#15. I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

Pete Doherty