Odoi Sykes Quotes

#1. Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

Nido R. Qubein

#2. When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

George Horace Lorimer

#3. All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

Herschel Walker

#4. I look all right. I look like myself.

Lena Dunham

#5. This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone?

Christopher Isherwood

#6. But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand.

Werner Erhard

#7. If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer

#8. I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

Michael Mina

#9. The technique of beaming a ray on to window glass and reading from the vibrations the conversation going on inside had been used against the American embassy in Moscow in the Cold War and required the reconstruction of the entire building.

Frederick Forsyth

#10. Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

James S.A. Corey

#11. What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

Nikki Giovanni

#12. The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#13. I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart.

Tegan Quin

#14. This is awful. Do it again.

Henry A. Kissinger

#15. A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

John Jay Chapman