Top 100 O'kane Quotes

#1. I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

Paul O'Grady

#2. I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Dolores O'Riordan

#3. Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O

Derek A. Olsen

#5. ingenuity. "This

Bolaji O

#6. Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a look, hoping she hadn't heard anything, and saw she was wearing a poker face, which could only mean she'd heard everything.

Daniel O'Malley

#7. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

Diana Wynne Jones

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

Carlene O'Connor

#9. O laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais

#10. Ank froze. The moaning became more stressful and a little bit louder. "I think its coming from the basement."
Without warning, Ank grabs a pool stick and starts banging on the floorboards. "Would you shut up! It four o'clock in the morning and people are trying to get their beauty sleep!

Khalia Hades

#11. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling

#12. I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.

Lupita Nyong'o

#13. Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Mary Higgins Clark

#14. It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

Jack O'Brien

#15. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

John O'Hara

#16. PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. PSA98.2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

Anonymous

#17. For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.

Flannery O'Connor

#18. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.

Tom Magliozzi

#19. The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Robert Burns

#20. The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way and the very purpose of your life. O beloved, know this world is illuminated by people so!

Preeth Nambiar

#21. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

#22. Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

Tim O'Brien

#23. Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

William Shakespeare

#24. Happy he who forgets what cannot be changed.

Anne-Marie O'Connor

#25. When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

Shaquille O'Neal

#26. 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

#27. Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#28. For false christs and false prophets will arise and o perform signs and wonders, p to lead astray, if possible, q the elect. 23But r be on guard; s I have told you all things beforehand.

Anonymous

#29. 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

#30. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.

Timothy O'Grady

#31. Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

David O. McKay

#32. O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.

Saint Basil

#33. We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Ed O'Brien

#34. Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.

M.C. O'Neill

#35. Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Felicia Hemans

#36. Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

Graham O'Connell

#37. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#38. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Conan O'Brien

#39. I'd be the last colonel in the world to order you to go to that U.S.O. show and have a good time, but I want every one of you who isn't sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that U.S.O. show right now and have a good time, and that's an order!

Joseph Heller

#40. I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

William Shakespeare

#41. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.

Paul O'Brien

#42. I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

Carlos Ghosn

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

L.M. Montgomery

#46. O dearer far than light and life are dear.

William Wordsworth

#47. 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

#48. Who has the data has the power.

Tim O'Reilly

#49. 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

#50. I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#51. Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.

Deirdre O'Kane

#52. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Deirdre O'Kane

#53. I have no proper money to invest!

Deirdre O'Kane

#54. You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

Deirdre O'Kane

#55. I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.

Deirdre O'Kane

#56. Dallas O'Kane had patience ... until he didn't. And then he burned shit to the ground.

Kit Rocha

#57. There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.

Deirdre O'Kane

#58. I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Deirdre O'Kane

#59. Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

Deirdre O'Kane

#60. Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

Deirdre O'Kane

#61. It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.

Deirdre O'Kane

#62. Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.

Deirdre O'Kane

#63. If necessary, he would probably kill for Jameson Kane.


If asked, he would probably die for Tatum O'Shea.

Stylo Fantome

#64. Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Deirdre O'Kane

#65. When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre.

Deirdre O'Kane

#66. I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.

Deirdre O'Kane

#67. I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.

Deirdre O'Kane

#68. Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Deirdre O'Kane

#69. I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.

Deirdre O'Kane

#70. I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

Deirdre O'Kane

#71. How do I look?" she asked.

"Absolutely stunning.

Stylo Fantome

#72. You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Deirdre O'Kane

#73. When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

Deirdre O'Kane

#74. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

Deirdre O'Kane

#75. The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

Deirdre O'Kane

#76. We all learned to think before we spoke and to limit what we said to the problem at hand.

Richard H. O'Kane

#77. I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.

Deirdre O'Kane

#78. I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

Deirdre O'Kane

#79. Hough I have to say nothing beats Type O mixed with a little cannabis." A muscle worked in David's jaw. "You're stoned?"
"Not Really," I said. "Though I do have a strange craving for pizza. Extra garlic.

Jaye Wells

#80. I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

Deirdre O'Kane

#81. Yes ... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Deirdre O'Kane

#82. I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Deirdre O'Kane

#83. I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.

Deirdre O'Kane

#84. 'Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.

Aubrey O'Day

#85. Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying ... There is always something you can do ... Create something, a play reading ... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

Deirdre O'Kane

#86. I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach.

Deirdre O'Kane

#87. I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Deirdre O'Kane

#88. Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

Deirdre O'Kane

#89. I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.

Deirdre O'Kane

#90. I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

Deirdre O'Kane

#91. I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market.

Deirdre O'Kane

#92. I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.

Deirdre O'Kane

#93. I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.

Deirdre O'Kane

#94. My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.

Deirdre O'Kane

#95. I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.

Deirdre O'Kane

#96. One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.

Deirdre O'Kane

#97. Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong

Kane O'Hara

#98. You're in O'Kane territory now. We do what we want, and fuck whoever doesn't like it.

Kit Rocha

#99. Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

Deirdre O'Kane

#100. I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble's life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights.

Deirdre O'Kane

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