Jim Otto Quotes

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.

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• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Memory

• The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

  

  O. Henry
  • Road
  • Eye
  • Fortune

• When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Opinion

• The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Habit
  • Stand
  • Cow

• Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Place
  • Patriotism

• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Wait
  • Anniversary
  • Bride

• In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Age
  • Everybody
  • Thinks

• Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • You
  • Question
  • Talking

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Words
  • English
  • Speak

• The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Money
  • Pretty
  • Society

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Audience

• Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Honor
  • Role
  • Step

• Always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  

  John Adams
  • America
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • God
  • Men
  • Character

• The transfiguring touch was to come, it seemed from a girl's lips; but it had not; he kissed, and life remained uncharmed. ...at the bottom of his heart, he was still expecting the transfiguring touch to come, some day, from something he was to obtain or do, perhaps to-morrow.... Then he had by accident found out the sigil's power...

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Power

• It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Eye
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• I may have punched walls when no one else was around.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Punched

• There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.

  

  Jim Otto