Quotes About Oscar Wao

#1. 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Junot Diaz

#2. You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

Peter Drucker

#3. Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Rory Miller

#4. It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

Anders Hejlsberg

#5. They're our families, but they're not us. Whatever hitches they carry in their steps does not cripple you or me.

Sharon Sala

#6. It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.

Emile Durkheim

#7. He was happy enough to stay in this jumbled, lively place where the drinks were cheap and the band was loud and he could feel the inner peace that comes from knowing that all your clothes are new and perfectly fitted.

Richard Yates

#8. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Joseph Murray

#9. Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

Lloyd Alexander

#10. I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. And what good is a voice when so few will listen?

Stacey Jay

#12. Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on ...

Dennis R. Miller

#13. It's your life, quite possibly your only one. Still you find yourself having a vodka at three a.m., waiting for your pill to kick in, with time ticking through you and your own ghost already wandering among your rooms.

Michael Cunningham

#14. Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

Gershon Legman

#15. If you are grading your own test, will you pass every time!

Be careful of your self-perception because it could deceive you.

Marion Hill

#16. If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

Harry S. Truman