Oliver Oken Quotes

#1. They're out there. First line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Ken Kesey

#2. Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.

Harper Lee

#3. Can I ask a stupid question ?
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. Ask away.

Derek Landy

#4. He feels flattered by the attention. Most people look anywhere but his lower body. They pretend not to notice when he limps down the docks. It makes it worse, somehow, everyone pretending that he's still whole.

Karen Russell

#5. When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

Elizabeth Moon

#6. The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Anne Lamott

#7. My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#8. The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism ... In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

George Elliott Clarke

#9. She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.

Michel Faber

#10. [T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

John Stuart Mill