Ownlife Quotes

#1. To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife ...

George Orwell

#2. A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

Emily Dickinson

#3. It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we - the species, that is - pick up that strange and perverse habit?

Michael Cunningham

#4. Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Tris Speaker

#5. Wisdom is essential for success
but failure is the source of wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

Jimmy Breslin

#7. No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Elizabeth Peyton

#8. You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

Lewis Black