Obe Quotes

#1. Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.

Jennifer Crusie

#2. An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

Michael Winner

#3. The very last thing the Queen needs to do before retirement is to dub Shaun Ryder an OBE. It's decided.

M.C. O'Neill

#4. My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.

Brian Clough

#5. Each of us at our root is consciousness, and in the highest of the spiritual realms life and form become light. I experienced this in an OBE in which I went to the outer ring of the source of creation.

Belsebuub

#6. I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

Joan Collins

#7. There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed.

John Le Carre

#8. I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.

Ken Loach

#9. It's a great honor ... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously ... I'm very honored to be given this honor.
(upon receiving the OBE)

David Beckham

#10. Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

Mitt Romney

#11. I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

Donna Mills

#12. Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

Marty Rubin

#13. The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

Dan Scanlon

#14. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#15. Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Tony Wilson

#16. Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

Rufus Wainwright

#17. I don't want an icon. Not on my wall, not in my bed. I want the woman, Nikki. I want you.

J. Kenner

#18. I do," Ellie said, then groaned inwardly. Those were the words that had put her in this position in the first place.

Gerri Russell

#19. I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

Elie Saab

#20. Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.

Debasish Mridha

#21. People look for peaceful solutions for the world troubled by conflict. A peaceful solution can only come from a peaceful heart. Be the peaceful solution you seek.

Raphael Zernoff

#22. occasionally or alternately I should not complain,

Frederick Lewis Maitland

#23. The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

Danny Fox

#24. Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

Stanley Kubrick