Dorri Olds > Dorri's Quotes

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
― Noam Chomsky

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”
― David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business