Top 100 Otto's Quotes
#1. But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.
Russell Banks
#2. As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as "God," the religious seeker must set aside "any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#3. Otto could be extremely convincing. During our sophomore year, he'd persuaded me to boycott McDonald's, even though they'd recently brought back the McRib.
Simon Rich
#4. Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
John Otto
#5. Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.
Hans Fallada
#6. Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
John Otto
#7. One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
Otto Penzler
#8. Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
Otto Von Bismarck
#9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank
#10. I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already ... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
Otto Frank
#11. We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
Otto Schily
#12. Art is life's dream interpretation.
Otto Rank
#13. When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
John Otto
#15. What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.
Whitney Otto
#16. At the Tourist Bureau they talk about the cooling trade winds that caress the shores of Puerto Rico every day and night of the year - but Nelson Otto was a man the trade winds never seemed to touch.
Hunter S. Thompson
#17. It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
John Otto
#18. I always say that it's not really been a good day if you haven't caused a major diplomatic incident by lunchtime,' Otto said with a grin.
Mark Walden
#19. We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains, and the security forces of every country on earth, but other than that ... just fear.
Mark Walden
#20. An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
Otto Weininger
#21. It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.
Miranda Otto
#23. Now I have a question," Otto wrote.
"Fire away."
"What do you see in him?"
"Apart from the obvious?"
"What's the obvious? I'm afraid I'm not a teenage girl.
Anna Sheehan
#24. There are no right or wrong, or fair results. There's just the final score.
Otto Rehhagel
#25. Wing watched her leave and turned to Otto. 'My father once told me that only the foolish man pulls on the tiger's tail as it dangles from the tree.' It was the first time that Otto had seen him smile.
Otto grinned at Wing. 'True, but how else do you find out if it's a tiger at all?
Mark Walden
#26. Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Rudolf Otto
#27. You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix
#28. A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Otto Von Bismarck
#29. I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.
Otto Frank
#30. These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.
Whitney Otto
#31. We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
Otto Schily
#32. I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix
#33. What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
Otto Preminger
#34. Because I believe, even in times of hardship, there's something positive to salvage, even if we have to sift, piece by tattered piece, through the scraps of our trials to find it.
Brenda J. Otto
#35. Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
Otto Penzler
#36. Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg
Otto F. Kernberg
#37. Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.
Otto Preminger
#39. Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.
Otto Rehhagel
#40. Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.
Miranda Otto
#41. And don't miss Frank Otto, the world's most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn't commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink!
Sara Gruen
#42. My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.
Otto Skorzeny
#43. I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.
Otto Frank
#44. Do we get a bedtime story?" Otto asked cheekily. "Oh yes, of course. I think we'll have one of my favorites; it's called 'The Little Boy and the Tranquilizer Gun." Raven smiled in a rather unsettling way.
Mark Walden
#45. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.
Otto Rehhagel
#46. Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here ... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
Otto Von Bismarck
#47. You are a song like no other song God's ever sung. Let that song fill your part of His world with joy-sounds.
Joanne Otto
#48. It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.
Jim Otto
#49. When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.
John Otto
#50. Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus ... one of those two doesn't sound right.
Mitch Hedberg
#51. Otto said, raising an eyebrow. 'You know it's almost like people don't want me interfering with their highly advanced experimental weapon systems these days.'
'How very inconsiderate of them,' Raven said.
Mark Walden
#52. I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.
Jim Otto
#53. The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness ... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.
Otto Scharmer
#54. I hope you don't snore," Otto said, laughing.
"Like a chainsaw, my friend, like a chainsaw," Wing replied, grinning.
Mark Walden
#55. You come out hurting all over, and what didn't hurt, didn't work.
Jim Otto
#56. I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
Otto Von Bismarck
#57. Yes, and for the record, he thinks you're insane, too. (Otto)
Oh, goodie. But I guess that's only fair since I think he's psychotic. (Susan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
Otto Von Bismarck
#60. There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.
Lori L. Otto
#61. The nation will never drill, fill and extract its way out of what amounts to a public health crisis among some populations. Throwing more 'treaters' into the mix amounts to digging a hole in an ocean of disease.
Mary Otto
#62. The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
#63. Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
Otto Schily
#64. It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest allies, and most convinced defenders of women.
Otto De Joux
#65. Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
Otto Von Bismarck
#67. There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Otto Schily
#68. First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
Otto Hahn
#69. All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Otto Dix
#70. OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy.
WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.
John Cleese
#71. The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.
Jim Otto
#72. One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
Otto Wallach
#73. Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
Otto Weininger
#74. Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.
Otto Von Bismarck
#75. This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Otto Schily
#76. The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
Otto Hermann Kahn
#77. Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go!
Mort Sahl
#78. The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
Otto Von Bismarck
#79. People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
Otto Dix
#80. With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
Otto Von Bismarck
#81. It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.
Otto Rank
#82. We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.
Otto Frank
#83. You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.
Miranda Otto
#84. It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
Otto Schily
#85. I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.
Otto Graham
#86. Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.
Martin Samuel
#87. I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.
Otto Frank
#88. The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.
Otto Scharmer
#90. Bang, Otto said as he simultaneously triggered the detonators in all of the helicopter's remaining missiles.
Mark Walden
#91. Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.
Karl Otto Pohl
#92. Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
Otto Penzler
#93. There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
Miranda Otto
#94. I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
Otto Preminger
#95. [Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
Otto Von Bismarck
#96. The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.
Miranda Otto
#97. Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, 'family!' Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder ... "
"Well," William said brightly, "and sex.
Deborah Eisenberg
#98. In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.
Otto Rank
#99. It's not what you do but what you don't do - the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish - that make you tired.
Donna Otto
