Oleanna Quotes

#1. [David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco's ACT.

Ishmael Reed

#2. I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.

Marc Chagall

#3. A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.

Tonny K. Brown

#4. The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused ... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

Evan Harris

#5. The kiss of peace, which was part of the ritual of the mass, was the symbol of trust, and no contract, from a wedding to a truce, was complete without it.

Ken Follett

#6. After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

Trevor Dunn

#7. Moments never wait for anyone, slowly the new moment pushes the old moment back and then it never comes back. That's what makes them precious.

Himanshu Chhabra

#8. If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Paul Bloom

#9. don't call your wife baby

David Mamet

#10. Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.

Dogen

#11. The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, 'I only do drugs so I can drink more'. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don't know any other reason. I'd start drinking in the morning. I'd drink all day long.

Dennis Hopper

#12. I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Bill Bryson

#13. Jameson: I just nailed you
Lexa: Strange. I didn't feel a thing.
Jameson: I just EMAILED you. I swear to GOD I typed emailed and my phone changed it
Lexa: Sure you did

Christine Zolendz

#14. Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Isaac Newton