Oliver $ Quotes

Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.

I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.