Oscar Acosta Quotes

#1. John Belushi had that aura of someone who doesn't have a lot of time - that's why he was a little frantic about everything. I think Oscar [Acosta] had that too. They were both holding onto the end of the tornado, and somehow I think they knew it just wasn't gonna last.

Corey Seymour

#2. And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Oscar Zeta Acosta

#3. When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#4. Wabe. Maybe it's initials for something like Will All Babies Expectorate.

John Bellairs

#5. The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
uncounted into the supple arms of love.

Muriel Rukeyser

#6. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

Robert Dale Owen

#8. I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

Oscar Zeta Acosta

#9. In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.

Ray Dandridge