Oedipa Maas Quotes

#1. [Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. Trystero. The word hung in the air as the act ended and all lights were for a moment cut; hung in the dark to puzzle Oedipa Maas, but not yet to exert the power over her it was to.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

Lou Reed

#4. And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Joan Collins

#5. The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Meister Eckhart

#6. Mantra: My swirling mind becomes peaceful, and my body releases all tension. I surrender to the love of the universe, which heals me totally.

Jay Woodman

#7. I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

Joel Kinnaman

#8. We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

George C. Marshall

#9. There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

George William Russell

#10. Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Chris Gabrieli

#11. Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive.

David Wolfe

#12. We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

Archibald MacLeish

#13. If the Milky Way were not within me how should I have seen it or known it?

Kahlil Gibran

#14. Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

Ilona Andrews

#15. 'Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

Richard Dreyfuss