Oinopa Quotes

#1. God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.

James Joyce

#2. There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

#3. I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change.

Kevin Fowler

#4. I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

Andrew Bird

#5. The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

Shane Claiborne

#6. God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

#7. Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

Freeman Dyson

#8. The king of swords, master of his own emotions, master of his own intellect, master of reason, gazed out at them, expression inscrutable.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

Gifford Pinchot

#10. Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.

James Patterson

#11. You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.

Andrea Gibson

#12. There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

Leonard Ravenhill

#13. The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

Kedar Joshi

#14. He'll find out somehow, because journeys end in lovers meeting.

Margaret Atwood