Top 100 Olson's Quotes
#1. Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.
Guy Davenport
#2. From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
Barbara Olson
#3. In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson
#4. He's fucking nuts. I'm stuck in a house with a psychotic person and I can't get out.
Yolanda Olson
#5. People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.
Carl Olson
#6. The paranormal world is a much more desired realm. There's no limit to possibilities, no comparison to probabilities, no concept of actualities. There's no solid platform for racism, judgment or hierarchy. It is exactly the manifestation you choose it to be, darkness and death included.
Rachel A. Olson
#7. There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'
Candice Olson
#8. You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
Charles Olson
#9. Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.
Johnny Olson
#10. Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Carl Olson
#11. We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement.
Rand Olson
#12. I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.
Barbara Olson
#13. When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.
Jeff Olson
#14. What do you ask a sexual predator that likes to kidnap women and break them down until he's tired of them?
Yolanda Olson
#15. Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.
Jeff Olson
#16. You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
Charles Olson
#17. Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around.
Jeff Olson
#18. The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Barbara Olson
#19. I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
Stephen Malkmus
#20. You can't break something that's already broken. There's nothing left inside of me to kill.
Yolanda Olson
#21. The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
Barbara Olson
#23. We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
Candice Olson
#24. How is domestication a violent process? A living thing's wildness is something potent: its strength lies in every cell of the body. Nothing was born to live in captivity, to be tamed, subdued and made submissive, and nothing accepts such a role without being forced.
Miles Olson
#25. Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."?
Ted Olson
#26. If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech" - a meaningless assertion.
Roger E. Olson
#27. it's best just to focus on what can be done to prepare for the situation. You prepare for the worse, and hope for the best.
Jonathan Olson
#28. [Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.
Lynne Olson
#29. It won't be an issue. The area we're modifying will have more breakout space, but I don't think it exceeds 1,000 feet. It's space we already have in the building, the public lobby area, which, in reality, we use now for breakouts and breakfast.
Steve Olson
#30. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.
Jeff Olson
#31. He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.
Barbara Olson
#32. You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
Charles Olson
#33. The single most important thing I can tell you about the Slight Edge is this: it's already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don't wait.
Jeff Olson
#34. There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.
Candice Olson
#35. The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
Ted Olson
#36. Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
Candice Olson
#37. Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
Barbara Olson
#38. Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.
Jeff Olson
#39. The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.
Jeff Olson
#40. There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.
Candice Olson
#41. If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
Jeff Olson
#42. Sometimes I consider chopping my hair down to a nice manageable three inches, but I would miss it too much. It's less useful and more confidence-boosting, like Superman's cape.
Melissa F. Olson
#43. I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Charles Olson
#44. I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.
Candice Olson
#45. There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.
Lynne Olson
#46. Distributional coalitions slow down a society's capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.
Mancur Olson
#47. It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
Candice Olson
#48. how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child?
Alix Olson
#49. It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson
#50. It wasn't the greatest bargain I'd ever made, but I didn't see a lot of alternatives, short of moving into Charlie's bedroom or trying to convince John to move to Belize.
Melissa F. Olson
#51. Ladies be seated, and let's have a wonderful time!
Johnny Olson
#52. O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl - a bit like Crab Nebula - do for now.
Charles Olson
#53. Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.
Jenni Olson
#54. Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.
Anna Olson
#55. This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
Charles Olson
#56. If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
Carl E. Olson
#57. Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson
#58. The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Charles Olson
#59. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.
Sigurd F. Olson
#61. I'm like one of those rich society girls - ridiculously famous in certain circles but only for stupid reasons.
Melissa F. Olson
#62. There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.
Jeff Olson
#63. The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.
Jeff Olson
#64. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.
Rand Olson
#65. You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
Ted Olson
#66. A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.
Charles Olson
#67. There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.
Jeff Olson
#68. For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.
Jeff Olson
#69. This
is the abstract, this
is the cold doing, this
is the almost impossible
Charles Olson
#70. To Hope and to many more turkey sandwiches." "Thank you," I said, the cold turkey warming my stomach. After
Gretchen Olson
#71. Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.
Rand Olson
#72. There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.
Jeff Olson
#73. Love wasn't an emotion I was able to sustain for very long. I tried once, maybe twice in my life, and it just never panned out. It was a dull emotion and I couldn't understand the concept so I decided not to dwell on it.
Yolanda Olson
#74. There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
Candice Olson
#75. Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
Barbara Olson
#76. Love is form, and cannot be without
important substance
Charles Olson
#77. She never typed her real name into her netbook in case it got key-logged, had no physical hard drive, and would boot up from a tiny microSD card that she could quickly swallow if the police ever came to her door.
Parmy Olson
#78. It's never too late to start.
It's always too late to wait.
Jeff Olson
#79. It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,
Ted Olson
#80. Fulfillment doesn't automatically happen as a result of linking up with the "right" person, job, or even ministry. Fulfillment happens as a result of being in God's will.
Marilyn Olson
#81. That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
Randy West
#82. Thinking of unicorns and rainbows isn't going to make this nightmare go away, but it's a start. Putting
Yolanda Olson
#83. Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
Candice Olson
#84. I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people.
Culbert Olson
#85. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.
Kirsten Olson
#86. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson
#87. What is it, you fucking freak? If it was anything like that fork thing he put on me, I would most likely find a way to just kill myself. Salvation be damned
Yolanda Olson
#88. I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
Candice Olson
#89. You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.
Jeff Olson
#90. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing - even when no one else is watching.
Jeff Olson
#91. Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson
#92. Ramona chuckled as she picked up her basket and pruning shears. "You, my dear, are wasted out here where no one but the servants are subject to your wry humor and intelligence." I grinned.
L.R. Olson
#93. As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
Anna Olson
#94. When something is tragic you never really forget it.
Sophia Olson
#95. I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson
#96. Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
Candice Olson
#97. An angel wants to know the face of the devil," he mused more to himself than to me. "If I allow this, will it satisfy you?
Yolanda Olson
#98. Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Barbara Olson
#99. Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.
Jeff Olson
#100. I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.
Candice Olson
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