Otto Van Asch Quotes

#1. Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.

Will Self

#2. Are you keeping anything else from me?"
"I'm keeping a lot of things from you."
"Like?"
"Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#3. Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Myles Munroe

#4. Even if you bar my way,
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair.

Wislawa Szymborska

#5. If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Paul Fussell

#6. To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Dorothy Norman

#7. 'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'

Matthew Pearl

#8. For everything I have given I have received much more in return

Gordon McIlwraith

#9. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

#10. There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Carmichael

#11. It's not what the mind says.
It's how seriously it is taken.

Mooji

#12. I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.

Stephen Shore

#13. With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

Alex Lifeson

#14. Her god is just like a Chinese parent, never running out of excuses to love a son.

Yiyun Li