H.P. Oliver Quotes
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
