Top 100 Quotes About Olson
#2. That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
Randy West
#3. Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.
Guy Davenport
#4. Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.
Clive James
#5. Scalia would bring the spoils of a recent hunting trip. "Scalia kills it and Marty cooks it," said guest and former Bush solicitor general Theodore Olson in 2007. "I never heard them talk about anything political or ideological, because there would be no point,
Irin Carmon
#6. I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
Stephen Malkmus
#7. Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example." Dr. Rand Olson
Rand Olson
#8. If we can somehow retain places where we can always sense the unknown, our lives will be richer." Sigurd Olson
Janet Kay
#10. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.
David Liss
#11. Either you do the math, or the math will do you." - Eric L. Olson
Eric L. Olson
#12. Love is form, and cannot be without
important substance
Charles Olson
#13. Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
Barbara Olson
#14. There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
Candice Olson
#15. Love wasn't an emotion I was able to sustain for very long. I tried once, maybe twice in my life, and it just never panned out. It was a dull emotion and I couldn't understand the concept so I decided not to dwell on it.
Yolanda Olson
#16. There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.
Jeff Olson
#17. Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.
Rand Olson
#18. To Hope and to many more turkey sandwiches." "Thank you," I said, the cold turkey warming my stomach. After
Gretchen Olson
#19. This
is the abstract, this
is the cold doing, this
is the almost impossible
Charles Olson
#20. For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.
Jeff Olson
#21. There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.
Jeff Olson
#22. A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.
Charles Olson
#23. O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl - a bit like Crab Nebula - do for now.
Charles Olson
#24. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.
Rand Olson
#25. The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.
Jeff Olson
#26. There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.
Jeff Olson
#27. I'm like one of those rich society girls - ridiculously famous in certain circles but only for stupid reasons.
Melissa F. Olson
#29. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.
Sigurd F. Olson
#30. The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Charles Olson
#31. Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson
#32. If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
Carl E. Olson
#33. This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
Charles Olson
#34. Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.
Anna Olson
#35. Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.
Jenni Olson
#36. You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
Ted Olson
#37. I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.
Candice Olson
#38. Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.
Jeff Olson
#39. Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Barbara Olson
#40. An angel wants to know the face of the devil," he mused more to himself than to me. "If I allow this, will it satisfy you?
Yolanda Olson
#41. Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
Candice Olson
#42. I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson
#43. When something is tragic you never really forget it.
Sophia Olson
#44. As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
Anna Olson
#45. Ramona chuckled as she picked up her basket and pruning shears. "You, my dear, are wasted out here where no one but the servants are subject to your wry humor and intelligence." I grinned.
L.R. Olson
#46. Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson
#47. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing - even when no one else is watching.
Jeff Olson
#48. She never typed her real name into her netbook in case it got key-logged, had no physical hard drive, and would boot up from a tiny microSD card that she could quickly swallow if the police ever came to her door.
Parmy Olson
#49. I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
Candice Olson
#50. What is it, you fucking freak? If it was anything like that fork thing he put on me, I would most likely find a way to just kill myself. Salvation be damned
Yolanda Olson
#51. If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
Lynne Olson
#52. If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.
Sigurd F. Olson
#53. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson
#54. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.
Kirsten Olson
#55. Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
Sigurd F. Olson
#56. Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.
Sigurd F. Olson
#57. Although thoroughly discredited and defanged, the Bund, in the public mind,
Lynne Olson
#58. Not one death but many,
not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is
the law
Charles Olson
#59. You don't know how to fight. You just leave it up to me.
Norah Olson
#60. One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
Candice Olson
#61. What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.
Rand Olson
#62. With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
Candice Olson
#63. I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people.
Culbert Olson
#65. Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
Candice Olson
#66. Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
Candice Olson
#67. Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.
Candice Olson
#68. The flowers are ravined
by bees, the fruit blossoms
are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything.
Charles Olson
#69. I was discovering that the cross of Christ meant more then joy and peace. It meant suffering, too- suffering that was necessary to bring a later hope.
Bruce E. Olson
#70. I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
Ted Olson
#71. The journey starts with a single step - not with thinking about taking a step.
Jeff Olson
#72. I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
Candice Olson
#73. All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.
Charles Olson
#75. The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Ted Olson
#77. Natural disasters are revelatory. The manner in which a society interprets a catastrophe and responds to the chaos exposes many of the accepted truths, prejudices, hopes, and fears of a culture. - Nicholas Shrady, The Last Day
Steve Olson
#78. They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.
Carl E. Olson
#79. When you have a Thai girlfriend, you never lose her ~ you just sometimes lose your place in the queue
Warren Olson
#80. Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
Kirsten Olson
#81. I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.
Carl E. Olson
#82. How can someone with the face of an angel hide the intentions of the devil so well?
Yolanda Olson
#83. Would I want to be sponsored by me?
Jeff Olson
#84. we're inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.
Lynne Olson
#85. In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.
Lynne Olson
#86. A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.
Charles Olson
#87. If you don't have money handled, you don't live free.
Jeff Olson
#88. Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.
Rand Olson
#89. Thinking of unicorns and rainbows isn't going to make this nightmare go away, but it's a start. Putting
Yolanda Olson
#90. Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
Candice Olson
#91. When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?
Candice Olson
#92. As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.
Rand Olson
#93. Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.
Jeff Olson
#94. When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Charles Olson
#95. We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
Charles Olson
#96. He looked down at her and rolled his eyes then looked over and saw me approaching with the chain. "What happened to her?" I asked peeking around him. "I knocked her out. I got tired of listening to her whimpering. I mean if you're a cold blooded killer, act like it." He
Yolanda Olson
#97. A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
Johnny Olson
#99. Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.
Sarah E. Olson
#100. You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
Kaitlin Olson
