Oilcloth Alley Quotes

#1. Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

Alastair Reynolds

#2. If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Maude Adams

#3. Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem so relentlessly present tense.

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. A lawyer's answer ... so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow.

Stephen King

#5. I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

Joni Mitchell

#6. There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself

Henry Fielding

#7. If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

James Purefoy

#9. I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#10. If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

Robert Ruark