Top 100 Lee O'daniel Quotes
#1. 'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#2. Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#3. Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#4. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#5. I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I'm eleven, I'm sixteen, I'm eighteen, I'm a newborn I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#6. I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#7. What do you think of Chicago?
Well, the telephone operator woke me up today and said, 'Good morning, Miss Lee. It's eight o'clock, and three below zero.
Harper Lee
#8. Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.
Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they were
redecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard.
Janet Evanovich
#9. Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o'clock and sneezed.
Harper Lee
#10. Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#11. What happened after my best friend left is that I couldn't make friends anymore, or I could make them but I couldn't enjoy them, I couldn't relate to them.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#12. This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#13. I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#14. I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#16. They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunter
and the hunted. And it wasn't especially awkward. They were comfortable together,
despite the fact that she'd hit him with a bus. Maybe his scheme would work.
Janet Evanovich
#17. You stole him with your advanced American slut technology! You're not nice!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#18. I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.
Ryan O'Neal
#19. I say these damned things,' Jack went on, musing as they drank their bottle, 'and don't quite understand at the time, though I see people looking black as hell, and frowning, and my friends going "Pst, pst", and then I say to myself, "You're brought by the lee again, Jack.
Patrick O'Brian
#20. Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?'
Uh ... you know. Pretty good.'
Have you said the L-Word yet?'
The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?'
Uh ... No. The other L-Word.'
?'
Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#21. The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.
Harold B. Lee
#22. ...maybe karma isn't a bitch after all, she's just fair."
Kate O'Malley
CLAMMING UP
Lee-Anne Stack
#23. Are we letting her drink beer again?"
"Hell yes we are, and it's hilarious.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#24. For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#25. My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#26. I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#27. Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.
Conan O'Brien
#28. I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
F. Lee Bailey
#29. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
Harper Lee
#30. I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#32. Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up.
Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#33. I'll love you forever. And I have dipping sauce for you! I'll be your dipping sauce bitch!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#34. I feel like im in this river just getting swept along ... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck.
... I never wanted to get stuck
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#35. A yard and left, Dave, he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys
Lee Child
#36. Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#37. O world, that's you!
You are but a widened place in the river
Where Life looks down and we rejoice for her
Mirrored in us, and so we dream
And turn away
Edgar Lee Masters
#38. Washington is the only lunatic asylum in the world run by its own inmates.
W. Lee O'Daniel
#39. I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#40. (door slams open at 2:30am)
"Guess who's DRUAAAHUUUNK!" said Wilson.
"I guess Wilson, now get out," moaned Scott
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#41. I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#42. Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#43. A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.
Conan O'Brien
#44. When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#46. This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me.
Kurt Cobain
#47. The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#48. Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon.
Lee Child
#49. Hey, amazon.ca, that's the online bookstore or whatever, right?
-Yep
-What's the website for that?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#50. I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#51. Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady ... cleans up ... dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so ... Monday. Right?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#52. Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#53. o have good intentions is irrelevant and misleading. All evil that has ever been done in the universe was done with good intentions. You must measure effect, impact, and consequence, not intentions. - Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Thirteenth Binding Fifteenth Stanza
Aaron Lee Yeager
#54. I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#55. She's their secret weapon! They call her Trasha, and she's eight years old. I hear they discovered her at the Pacific Mall arcade, playing Drum-Mania. She has so much A.D.D., it's not even funny.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#56. All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#57. And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#58. The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!
Edgar Lee Masters
#59. Can we go out sometime? Or, I mean, I mean ... Can we maybe just hang out? Can we get to know each other? You're new in town, right? I've lived here forever
I mean
I mean ... there are ... reasons ... for you to hang out with me?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#60. Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?"
Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim."
Kim: "You're one of everyone.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#61. Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#62. We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#63. We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#64. Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.
Earl Lee
#65. You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#66. The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke
#67. Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#68. Seven o'clock and all's well," said Atticus. "You've been swearing at your aunt." "I have not." "She told me you had." "I was crude, but I didn't cuss her.
Harper Lee
#69. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Harper Lee
#72. Kim: Hey ... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword.
Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#73. I didn't get to hear the rest, as the skipper poked a red, peeling face out of the wheelhouse and told Billy Lee to get back to work or he wasn't getting paid. The guy looked to be a hundred years old and four feet tall, but when he opened his mouth, even I jumped.
Vincent H. O'Neil
#74. In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#75. O beautiful for spacious skies, ... O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!
Katharine Lee Bates
#76. Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#77. O, beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain ...
Katharine Lee Bates
#78. I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#79. I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#80. The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#82. I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#83. I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#84. I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#85. I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#87. 'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#88. I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#89. There are things we can't change, and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grace
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#92. I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#93. When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#94. I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#95. I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#96. Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.
Conan O'Brien
#98. I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#100. 'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
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