Olin Layman > Olin's Quotes

“Whichever form of government that democracy will create in the future, the great American experiment will go down in history as the freest and the bravest in the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Happiness is knowing that someone, somewhere, really gives a shit.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“The Clintons’ partnership is infused with patriotic fervor. Early on, they referred to their life together as “the journey.” They intended to inspire the expansion of the country’s social consciousness.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“An accordion player who had no fingers on his right hand used little sticks tied to his wrist; the singer was blind; and almost all the others were horribly deformed, due to the nervous form of the disease very common in this area. With light from the lamps and the lanterns reflected in the river, it was like a scene from a horror movie. The place is lovely,”
― Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“an outstanding engineer, an”
― Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance

“Her skin smelled of autumn and the wind.
Don't Jacob...
But it was too late. Clara didn't flinch as he pulled her close. He grabbed her hair, kissed her mouth, and he felt her heart beating as fast as his own.
...Let her go, Jacob. But he kissed her again, and it was his name she whispered, not Will's.”
― Cornelia Funke, Reckless

“jesus”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

“...'You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly. 'They hate Jews.'
'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger.
'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22