Spotten Owl Quotes

#1. Food, she decided, was like performance rather than fine art: its power was in its transience and immediacy.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#2. It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#5. Every language has its own music.

Sid Caesar

#6. To the servant of God ... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#7. There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

Bruce Jenner

#8. One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

Mel Odom

#9. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...

David Gemmell

#10. The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Alain De Botton

#11. It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#12. Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...

Lemony Snicket

#13. Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

Cobie Smulders