Othas Ribs Quotes

#1. One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

Donnie Simpson

#2. Check your heart and make sure your intention steers you in the right direction.

Norhafsah Hamid

#3. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.

Helen Fielding

#4. We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.

Shelly Crane

#5. Home ... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.

Kate Atkinson

#6. If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Stockwell Day

#7. It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.

Jean Webster

#8. I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Peter Ackroyd

#9. A bad dream. You were having a bad dream." "Oh", I say. "Is that what I'm having?

Peter Hedges

#10. The woman stared at the ruined body. Blood dripped from her arm. A fine spray of red covered her face
must've been cast off when she slammed down the cans. She wiped her face with her left forearm and kicked the stalker's corpse with her sneakered foot. Don't mess with Texas.

Ilona Andrews

#11. Silence is the break between two thoughts/noises.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.

Joseph Sobran

#13. God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

Rob Brezsny

#14. It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England, no one was particularly flummoxed even by such a particularly localized, extraordinarily specific example of maudlin weather.

Vera Nazarian