Ogreish Quotes

#1. This particular ogre, who went by the name Skoorn, was (by ogreish standards) exceedingly clever, and he had developed a taste for what ogres call "screech melons.

Robert Kroese

#2. In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

Wasif Ali Wasif

#3. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#4. When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Nina Jacobson

#5. Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

Itzhak Perlman

#6. Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

Jason Fried

#7. The biggest thing that I get most excited about is, my family and I would watch television together, and we weren't just passive viewers. Something would happen, and then we would talk about it. When Will Smith was shot on 'Fresh Prince,' that sparked a conversation about safety.

Jerrod Carmichael

#8. Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

#10. Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Mason Cooley

#11. When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#12. If one of us had to die, it ought to be the one with poison in her heart.

Rosamund Hodge

#13. ... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.

Robert Payne

#14. When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.

Chris Hardwick

#15. Every time he came in, he tried to charm me into tellin' him my name, but I never did. I was too aware of who I was. And who I wasn't.

Karen Witemeyer

#16. Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

John Derbyshire