Top 100 Michael O'dwyer Quotes
#2. We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
Michael O'Leary
#3. Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?
Michael O'Donoghue
#4. It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.
Michael O'Leary
#5. I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.
Michael D. O'Brien
#6. They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope.
Michael D. O'Brien
#7. If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.
Michael O'Leary
#8. People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.
Michael O'Leary
#9. All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!
Michael O'Leary
#10. Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.
Ian Bannen
#11. During the first 14 of the 40 years Michael and I have been married, we experienced great strife and misery because we tried to do things in the flesh and not in the spirit.
Stormie O'martian
#12. I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.
Michael Korda
#13. My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
Michael Ironside
#15. I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.
Michael O'Leary
#16. To love mankind merely in the abstract", he once said, "is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do what you can to assist him.
Michael D. O'Brien
#20. I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.
Michael O'Donoghue
#21. You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?
Michael D. O'Brien
#22. Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.
Michael O'Donoghue
#23. It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess." "Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?" "Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon." "Just as it should be. Commence.
Michael D. O'Brien
#24. Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness.
Michael D. O'Brien
#25. I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.
Michael Chabon
#26. Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.
Michael D. O'Brien
#27. Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites ... There is a war between good and
Michael O'Brien
#28. If we intend merely to coast along the low roads, maybe we can do it alone. If we are heading for the mountains, the support of others is indispensable.
Michael Casey O. C. S. O.
#29. Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.
Conan O'Brien
#30. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
Michael D. O'Brien
#31. We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.
Michael D. O'Brien
#32. I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.
Michael O'Leary
#33. All grief would slip away and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning of his existence and hungered only for milk.
Michael D. O'Brien
#35. My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.
Michael O'Brien
#36. Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
Michael O'Leary
#37. University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
Michael O'Leary
#38. It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.
Michael O'Donoghue
#39. I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
Michael J. Fox
#41. The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.
Michael O'Leary
#42. I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block ... pretty funny.
P. J. O'Rourke
#43. Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.
Michael D. O'Brien
#44. Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
Michael O'Leary
#45. TEACHER
Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like
STUDENT
I wud like
TEACHER
To feed your fingertips
STUDENT
To feed yur fingerteeps
TEACHER
To the wolverines.
Michael O'Donoghue
#46. 12.00 midnight: whilst soaking in my bath I hear a distant shout. "I'm going to bed, but I don't necessarily have to go alo-o-ne." It's Dr Chapman in the passage. He repeats the line three times, like someone selling scrap iron and it recedes along the corridor.
Michael Palin
#47. One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.
Michael O'Leary
#49. Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
Michael O'Leary
#50. My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
Michael Caine
#51. If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.
Michael Bloomberg
#53. Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
Michael O'Donoghue
#55. When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.
Michael O'Leary
#56. Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well.
Michael D. O'Brien
#57. I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
Karen O
#58. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Michael D. O'Brien
#59. If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.
Michael O'Leary
#60. Tell me, Anna, if man is capable of projecting his belief onto the cosmos, isn't it possible by the same token, that he can project his unbelief onto the cosmos?
Michael D. O'Brien
#61. Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.
Michael O'Brien
#62. We labor to preserve the life of the body, but ultimately life and death are out of our hands. If the patient lives awhile longer, a certain kind of good will result. If God ordains that this is the time to die, another kind of good will result.
Michael D. O'Brien
#63. Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself.
Michael D. O'Brien
#64. If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. - Augustine
Michael O'Donnell
#65. At the end of human; life losses is equal to life gain life earned is equal to life learned and life pain is equal to life lecture. Everything is just one; You!
O.O Michael
#66. He's amazing. He's a different kind of saint, maybe a tougher kind than the Pope.
Michael D. O'Brien
#67. I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.
Michael O'Leary
#68. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.
D. Michael Quinn
#70. The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.
Michael O'Leary
#71. I'm taking T.O., every day ... He gives me the whole football field.
Michael Irvin
#72. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
Michael Drayton
#75. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.
Michael O'Leary
#76. Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.
Michael O'Donoghue
#78. Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family.
Michael O'Brien
#80. I don't think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen's head to explode.
Michael O'Donoghue
#83. J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
Michael O'Brien
#84. Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.
Michael O'Leary
#85. It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
Michael O'Donoghue
#86. The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.
Michael O'Donoghue
#87. Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.
Michael O'Donoghue
#89. Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
#91. In this world are many people who do not master their bodies. Such people say that no one can tell them what to do, not even God, and they think that in this way they have no master. In the end they become slaves to anything.
Michael D. O'Brien
#92. Michael, my darling light. Be sure to have Masses said for the repose of his soul and for us. Your loving mother, Bridget
Edna O'Brien
#94. Colin reached out and grabbed hold o fine car engine, ripping it. He lifted it above his head. Solomon Cord dropped the wrench and said God it is true.
Michael Carroll
#95. Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith.
Michael D. O'Brien
#96. Any good humor is sophomoric. 'Sophomoric' is the liberal word for funny.
Michael O'Donoghue
#97. I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.
Michael O'Donoghue
#98. Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
Michael O'Leary
#99. Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?
Conan O'Brien
#100. Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Michael D. O'Brien
