Ottens Garden Quotes

#1. You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

Rondal Partridge

#2. I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Keanu Reeves

#3. The Nature of men and women -their essential nature- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Jose Maria Aznar

#5. I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

Katherine Heigl

#6. It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#7. Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it?

Mark Twain

#8. And loving you was a pattern of self-discovery because some way, somehow I always ended up learning something new about myself.

Robert M. Drake

#9. It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.

Ransom Riggs

#10. Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

Edward Abbey

#11. I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.

Drew Daywalt

#12. I loved him. I loved the man that was waiting for me somewhere in the house. I loved the way he loved me, and I loved all his faults. Including his quick reactions based solely on emotions rather than on facts.

Molly McAdams

#13. I don't keep things safe. I used to. Perhaps. I can't keep all the plates spinning. I drop some." ... "Well, that is always the risk, if you're a plate, isn't it? If you want to be spun, then you must accept the possibility of being broken.

Paul Cornell

#14. Sometimes the only thing you can do is forget about your problems and just keep moving forward.

Elaine Hussey

#15. Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

Donald Barthelme