Frank J. Oteri quotes

Frank J. Oteri quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?”
-- Frank J. Oteri

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“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”
“Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.”
“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”
“But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.59
“I love hearing my audience breathe.”
“Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”
“Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.126, Penguin
“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”
“You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.”
“One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.”

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