Top 23 Quotes About Olen
#2. We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast experiment, a hope that personal finance and investments would do it all for us. We now know that for all too many people, it did not.
Helaine Olen
#3. Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.
Sophia Amoruso
#4. Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#5. Jayne Anne Phillips ... is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite ... This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.
Robert Olen Butler
#6. Life is a daring adventure, so suffering should be optional.
Debasish Mridha
#8. People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.
Olen Steinhauer
#9. For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.
Haruki Murakami
#10. Hey! I'm talkin' to you, feta bread!
Turkey
#11. But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.
Neal Stephenson
#12. The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.
Robert Olen Butler
#14. Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
Olen Steinhauer
#15. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
Robert Olen Butler
#17. All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
Robert Olen Butler
#18. Diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.
Pope Clement XIII
#19. I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.
Bob Odenkirk
#20. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.
Cassandra Clare
#21. Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#22. The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious ... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.
Robert Olen Butler
#23. The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
Robert Olen Butler
