Anton Oliver quotes

“Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.”
-- Anton Oliver

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“It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.”

Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”

“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”

“We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

“Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?”

“Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.”