Ollie Murrin > Ollie's Quotes

“We hunt as we've always done, part sport, part grocery shopping.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

“Following his ordeal at the hands of the angry residents in Dusty Bottom Lane yesterday, he felt particularly disinclined to exhibit any form of enthusiasm whatsoever.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“The most beautiful things in life are unassuming and simple to begin with.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Much of clinician burnout is due to spending time writing notes, placing orders, generating referrals, writing prior authorization letters, and creating patient communication. In other words, burnout is caused by physicians having to generate output! With the emergence of large language models that are used to train generative AI solutions, these use cases will be at the frontier of AI’s applications in healthcare.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

“I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

“The more you look, the more you see.”
― Pirsig, Robert M., Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident”
― Shannon Hale, River Secrets

“ممتلئ بك،
جلداً ، دماً، وعظاماً، وعقلاً وروحاً،
لا مكان لنقص رجاء، أو للرجاء،
ليس بهذا الوجود إلاك”
― جلال الدين الرومي, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!”
― Anne Rice

“Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“The experience of that night, coming so overwhelmingly to a man so dead, almost rent me in pieces. It was the same feeling that artists know when we, rarely, achieve truth in our work; the feeling of union with some great force, of purpose and security, of being glad that we have lived. For the first time I felt the pull of race and blood and kindred, and felt beating within me things that had not begun with me. It was as if the earth under my feet had grasped and rooted me, and were pouring its essence into me. I sat there until the dawn of morning, and all night long my life seemed to be pouring out of me and running into the ground. -- from the short story The Namesake”
― Willa Cather, A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays