Oh Land Quotes

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

The bottom line is in heaven!

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

The present is the past biting into the future.

The world belongs to the articulate.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.

A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.

Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

Saying "now it's done" . It's horrible. Sometimes I force myself to do it or I know I will turn crazy.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.