Oshields Quotes

#1. The assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.

John Scalzi

#2. In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Phil Ochs

#3. I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

Maria Sharapova

#4. People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

Mary Gaitskill

#5. Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

Michael Storm

#6. Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Henry Miller

#7. I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie

#10. Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did, the officer observed.

Carolyn Keene

#11. The Goldsworth castle became particularly solitary after that turning point at dusk which resembles so much the nightfall of the mind. Stealthy

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. Beside him, another guard recognized me, and one by one they bowed, deeply and reverently.

Kiera Cass

#13. To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

Giulio Douhet