Top 100 O'connor Quotes

#1. A life that was surprisingly full, even though it was simple. Or maybe because it was simple.

Carlene O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #1588
#2. For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #2902
#3. Happy he who forgets what cannot be changed.

Anne-Marie O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #3593
#4. Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #3739
#5. A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don't have a gift for telling a story.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #4047
#6. Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #5535
#7. That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #5541
#8. My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #6427
#9. She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

Joe Biden

O'connor Quotes #10512
#10. If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #11545
#11. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #13238
#12. My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

Gavin O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #14587
#13. It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #19007
#14. Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #22302
#15. I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #24167
#16. We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #24418
#17. Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #24770
#18. A God you understood would be less than yourself.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #25108
#19. People only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #26974
#20. I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #30969
#21. I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Patricia Ireland

O'connor Quotes #33233
#22. Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie ... Would that be intimidating?

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #36557
#23. I'm great at washing dishes and I'm great at cleaning the house and all that kind of stuff. I don't like doing it, but I'm ...

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #41506
#24. Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #43489
#25. It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

Scott O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #47676
#26. I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Renee O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #47993
#27. When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

Erin O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #49075
#28. No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Frank O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #49735
#29. Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

Lindsey O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #52189
#30. Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Carroll O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #55178
#31. Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #55900
#32. It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #57137
#33. It seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.

Kelly O'Connor McNees

O'connor Quotes #63648
#34. Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily is a passing, fading attachment in its sensuous aspects since it is a poor substitute for what the unconscious is after.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #63791
#35. The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #65223
#36. I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

Frances O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #68114
#37. Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #69327
#38. I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.

Renee O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #70513
#39. Be brave. Write plainly.

Patricia O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #72312
#40. He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'
'What you got on it?' the girl said.
'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'
'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #73090
#41. Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #73268
#42. And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #73628
#43. Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful ... and gentle.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #73919
#44. I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #76284
#45. August 19, 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court. Male justices who had made noises over the years about resigning if a woman ever joined their ranks stay put.

Irin Carmon

O'connor Quotes #76933
#46. The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #79385
#47. Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.
Her response was, If it's only a symbol, to hell with it.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #84454
#48. The life you save may very well be your own.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #84809
#49. I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #89850
#50. Be human. Be a dreamer. Be your own personal success story. Then help others to dream again. Humanity depends on it.

Julieanne O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #99888
#51. The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #105233
#52. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

Julieanne O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #105669
#53. She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #106996
#54. The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #110218
#55. At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #112195
#56. The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee. Bailey

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #112204
#57. Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #114996
#58. No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

Tom O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #115588
#59. I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #118146
#60. I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #119587
#61. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #119636
#62. Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Varley O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #125414
#63. It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Carroll O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #129397
#64. Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #129773
#65. As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

Erin O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #133324
#66. I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on the catwalk. That was my beginning and, hopefully, my legacy.

Erin O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #133658
#67. I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #135152
#68. I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #136459
#69. The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #138174
#70. No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

David Sedaris

O'connor Quotes #140180
#71. When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #141494
#72. I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #141526
#73. There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #144332
#74. If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #144467
#75. Will you for God's sake get off that subject? Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #146043
#76. One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Carroll O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #146194
#77. Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #146568
#78. On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think ... of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #146673
#79. He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #147386
#80. ...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #148763
#81. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #150608
#82. The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #152667
#83. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.

Rod Dreher

O'connor Quotes #158841
#84. Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

Joseph O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #158865
#85. Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

Renee O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #161113
#86. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #161781
#87. For me it's all about creating a goal and fulfilling it.

Renee O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #163132
#88. I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #165296
#89. And as if suffering ever taught anybody a thing except to thank God when it ended.

Kelly O'Connor McNees

O'connor Quotes #165536
#90. The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #167351
#91. Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #167406
#92. Perhaps the best antidote and preventive for burnout is the feeling of solid connection with the people in our lives. When we can share our frustrations with family and friends, our burden is eased and we can get new perspectives.

Richard O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #169260
#93. She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #171206
#94. My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

Sinead O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #171924
#95. I was born in a wreck and my mothers a whore.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #172039
#96. As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people.

Edward Kennedy

O'connor Quotes #176100
#97. Julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who drank and screamed at him. He walked along, saturated in depression, as if in the midst of his martyrdom he had lost his faith.

Flannery O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #177917
#98. Avoid triggers. If you're an alcoholic, stay out of bars. If you're a depressed or impulsive shopper, don't go shopping. When you have to, go in with a list, rush in, and rush out. If you watch too much television, don't sit in your favorite chair. In fact, move it (or the TV) to another room.

Richard O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #181347
#99. I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

Renee O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #186055
#100. Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

Sandra Day O'Connor

O'connor Quotes #189470

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