Top 98 As Neill Quotes
#1. A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
Heather O'Neill
#2. It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth ...
Eugene O'Neill
#3. As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill
#4. Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.
Michael Neill
#5. From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.
Tony McCoy
#6. As I'm not currently being chased, I see no need to run.
Chloe Neill
#7. It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Eugene O'Neill
#8. The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.
Joseph O'Neill
#9. Whenever he began to see me as something more than a liability or a weapon,
whenever we spoke to each other without the barrier of rank and history between us, he backed away, more often than not insulting me to force the distance. Merit - Chicagoland Vampires
Chloe Neill
#10. I wish I could say I didn't owe anything to anyone. But the truth is, I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for the courage and support of each and every one of you. I hope I can be as good a leader as we've had in the past and as good as you deserve.
Jack O'Neill
#11. The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.
Heather O'Neill
#12. So as I shivered, naked and damp, in front of the bathroom mirror, I raised my eyes skyward. "I hope we're still okay."
I got no answer, but then, I didn't really expect one. Answer or not, it didn't matter. That's the thing about faith, I guess.
Chloe Neill
#13. If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
Neill Blomkamp
#14. Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Eugene O'Neill
#15. Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with ...
Gerard K. O'Neill
#16. Catcher snorted. "If we're not playing naked Twister, we're wasting our waking hours."
"Yep," Mallory said as she tugged him down the sidewalk, "that's the love of my life. He's a romantic at heart.
Chloe Neill
#17. Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head.
Heather O'Neill
#18. I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional ... waiter, for 3 years.
John Krasinski
#19. You have a wisdom inside you - listen for it. You have a light inside you - feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world - let your wisdom and light guide you as you do.
Michael Neill
#20. No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail. I will always love you as only a dog can.
Eugene O'Neill
#21. That's tough. Anything I can do?"
"Just stay in play as my backup."
I nearly swerved the car off the road. "I'm sorry - your backup?"
"You know, in case it doesn't work out with Fallon."
"And what about Ethan?"
Jeff chuckled. "I just figured he was your backup for me.
Chloe Neill
#22. Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last - as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function was to collect a healthy man and steadily damage him in readiness for the hospital at which a final and terrible injury would be inflicted.
Joseph O'Neill
#23. I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.
Neill Blomkamp
#24. From a House of vampires to a house of politicians," he muttered as we walked to the front door.
"Said the most political of vampires," I reminded him, and got a growl in response.
Chloe Neill
#25. No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.
Eugene O'Neill
#26. The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#27. You are a Cadogan vampire, by blood and bone. You have fought for this House, and you are mine to protect. My Sentinel, my Novitiate. As long as I am here to do it, I will protect you. As long as this House exists, you will have a home here. -Ethan
Chloe Neill
#28. We just thought of old age as some sort of clown routine.
Heather O'Neill
#29. As we explore these possibilities we
must remember that they are just that
- not predictions or prophecies.
Gerard O'Neill
#30. I'm really about as good at relaitionships as I am at being a vampire. I'm kind of a smart but surprisingly inept kind of girl.
Chloe Neill
#31. You look like the cat that ate the canary."
"As a vegetarian, I object to that metaphor."
Scout grinned teethily at me. "As a carnivore, I object to your pickines. Now spill the goods."
-Scout and Lily
Chloe Neill
#32. I'm still alive," Gabriel pointed out. "Nick is also still alive, as is Merit. Everybody wave.
Chloe Neill
#33. What kind of bird do you think these feathers come from?' she asked.
'I don't know. A swan?'
'You had better stop wearing those wings, then.
A swan might fall in love with you. And as you
probably know, swans mate for life.'
'You are a funny one, Rose.
Heather O'Neill
#34. You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!
Jennifer O'Neill
#35. Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it.
Stephen Neill
#36. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death.
Eugene O'Neill
#37. Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
Jennifer O'Neill
#38. As we left the kitchen, I asked, "Can I hold your sword today?"
Catcher glanced back over his shoulder and lifted a brow.
"The sword," I corrected. "The sword."
We'll see.
Chloe Neill
#39. Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
Joseph O'Neill
#41. I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts!
Jack O'Neill
#42. If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.
Neill Blomkamp
#43. Getting sliced up by a Jimmy Choo knockoff hadn't exactly been my finest moment as Cadogan Sentinel.
Chloe Neill
#44. You got shot?" "A couple of times, as it turns out. They aren't lying about the immortality thing.
Chloe Neill
#45. I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.
Neill Blomkamp
#46. I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."
~Sean O'Neill
Brenda Joyce
#47. He turned on his heel and began down the hall, then called back, "And we'll need to chat about your running off campus and into the arms of shifters without so much as a telephone call."
Sometimes, he was so predictable.
Chloe Neill
#48. Merit: I am yours until you ban bacon, or otherwise as long as I can put up with you.
Chloe Neill
#49. The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.
Stephen Neill
#50. A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself ... so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.
Eugene O'Neill
#51. Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object - such as a statue in the park - was struggling to keep itself together.
Heather O'Neill
#52. We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
Eugene O'Neill
#53. There is nothing we want quite as much as the thing we know we can't have.
Chloe Neill
#54. Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again ... I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill were laughing.
Woody Allen
#55. Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
Ed O'Neill
#56. We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.
Eugene O'Neill
#57. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.
Sam Neill
#58. Visualizing is meant to be used as a tool to trigger an emotional response within yourself. These emotions then dictate your vibration.
Jennifer O'Neill
#59. I accept that he has a past. I wasn't a saint before we met." She slid me a glance. "I wasn't." "You were a nerdy English lit student; you were as close as it gets without beatification.
Chloe Neill
#60. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.
Heather O'Neill
#61. I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point ... In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.
Mary O'Neill
#62. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, as long as you both shall live, including accidental or intentional immortality?
Chloe Neill
#63. Tell me you aren't crying. My whole image of you as a bad-ass warrior is crumbling.
Heather R. Blair
#64. Procastination can be very satisfying.' He laughed ruefully, 'As you pointed out, it may be a very human emotion, but there's undoubtedly something satisfying about pretending the world is fine and you problems will keep until you're ready to deal with them.
Chloe Neill
#65. Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.
Meredith Willson
#66. Write down the things you wish to remember, and keep those records close. Secured. It's surprising how much you forget as the years go on.
Chloe Neill
#67. When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice. When they look arbitrary, we live in a world of possibility. And when we see them as illusory, we wake up inside a world of dreams.
Michael Neill
#68. You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really - except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.
Eugene O'Neill
#69. As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.
Heather O'Neill
#70. You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.
Joseph O'Neill
#71. She was as secure as a sixty-year-old woman whose husband has never cheated on her.
Heather O'Neill
#72. It was both exhilarating and terrifying to discover that someone needed you as much as you needed them.
Fiona Neill
#73. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'Neill
#74. What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
Neill Blomkamp
#75. And then his voice echoed through my head. Merit.
He silently called my name, even as he stood beside her.
Liege? I answered back.
His eyes glinted. Don't call me that.
There is nothing else for me to call you. You are my employer.That is the deal we've struck.
Chloe Neill
#76. The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.
Heather O'Neill
#77. Ethan nodded and fell in line behind Nadia, who trotted back up the stairs, her hair bouncing on her shoulders as she moved. Really - it was like watching a shampoo commercial.
Chloe Neill
#78. Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.
Heather O'Neill
#79. The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people's behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.
Jennifer O'Neill
#80. To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
Eugene O'Neill
#81. Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
Neill F. Marriott
#82. I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Sam Neill
#83. It sucks because you're trying to do the right thing, but the result isn't showing it. You're at the stage where good intentions meet crappy abilities. Welcome to my first eleven months as a vampire." "You've only been a vampire for ten months." "My point exactly.
Chloe Neill
#84. The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
Heather O'Neill
#86. I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
Ed O'Neill
#87. Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully!
Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people's thinking!
Jennifer O'Neill
#88. Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.
Kate O'Neill
#89. Her eyes bulged as the noose slowly choked the life out of her. Yet still they burned into his.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#90. If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?
Neill Blomkamp
#91. Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.
Eugene O'Neill
#92. If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself
ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity
before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
Eugene O'Neill
#93. My first few weeks as a vampire had been inordinately busy. Like The Young and the Restless, but with slightly dead people.
Chloe Neill
#94. I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.
Neill Blomkamp
#95. You've got better boobs, I acknowledged. And just as we'd done each time we'd had this boobs-versus-legs conversation, we looked down at our chests. Ogled. Compared.
Chloe Neill
#96. When authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the police to stop it.
Bill Bryson
#97. I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably - besides the first two 'Alien' films, I watch '2001', I watch 'Star Wars', the first ones, because those actually had a huge effect on me as well, 'Empire Strikes Back' especially.
Neill Blomkamp
