Top 100 O'neill Quotes
#1. Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.
M.C. O'Neill
#2. He had not known a world that did not have her in it. Yet now he was going to discover just that.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#3. Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.
Joseph O'Neill
#4. I channel surf like probably most people.
Ed O'Neill
#5. The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.
Martin O'Neill
#6. Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.
Jack O'Neill
#7. In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at
Ravi Zacharias
#8. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'Neill
#9. Any time I sit down at my laptop to write and I'm feeling lazy, or that I can't be bothered, or if I'm generally just lacking inspiration, I sit there and remember life with my ex-wife, and the words flow from my fingertips.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#10. Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully!
Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people's thinking!
Jennifer O'Neill
#11. If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
Heather O'Neill
#12. Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.
Mike Ingham
#13. What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
Eugene O'Neill
#14. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill
#15. Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.
Tip O'Neill
#16. Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
Gerard K. O'Neill
#18. I hate doctors! They'll do anything ... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.
Eugene O'Neill
#19. Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
Joseph O'Neill
#20. Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?
Mary O'Neill
#21. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.
Martin O'Neill
#22. I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
Heather O'Neill
#23. When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.
Eugene O'Neill
#24. In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy.
Heather O'Neill
#26. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'Neill
#27. One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
Libba Bray
#28. I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'm afraid that's me. Honestly, I'll just take one massive big 'woof' and I shall be gone. Heart - gone!
Martin O'Neill
#29. Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill
#30. Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!
Eugene O'Neill
#31. You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child.
Heather O'Neill
#32. Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.
Marisha Pessl
#33. They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just
Heather O'Neill
#34. She was as secure as a sixty-year-old woman whose husband has never cheated on her.
Heather O'Neill
#35. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!
Jennifer O'Neill
#37. You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.
Joseph O'Neill
#38. Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
Eugene O'Neill
#40. As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.
Heather O'Neill
#41. Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.
Eugene O'Neill
#42. Lucifer's breath was like fire upon his skin. His eyes bulged from their sockets and he fought hard to breathe.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#43. How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.
Eugene O'Neill
#44. I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.
John O'Neill
#45. I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
Ron Suskind
#46. A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
Jennifer O'Neill
#47. They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?
Heather O'Neill
#48. One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
#49. I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
John O'Neill
#50. I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy, everything would go to hell.
Joseph O'Neill
#51. What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.
Heather O'Neill
#53. In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
Ed O'Neill
#54. O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
Gabriel Byrne
#55. I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
Ed O'Neill
#56. After a couple of somehow frightening evenings over the course of which each of us was, there can be little doubt, impressed more and more powerfully by the mental illness of the other, we restricted our friendship to the stairs.
Joseph O'Neill
#57. Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
Joseph O'Neill
#59. Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Eugene O'Neill
#60. We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.
Eugene O'Neill
#61. You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really - except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.
Eugene O'Neill
#62. A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.
Heather O'Neill
#63. He had intense gravitational force. He was like Saturn because Saturn has so many moons. If I kicked my shoes up in the air, they would go into orbit around him.
Heather O'Neill
#64. I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
Ed O'Neill
#66. I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin Hart
#68. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.
Heather O'Neill
#69. Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.
Meredith Willson
#70. It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder.
Heather O'Neill
#71. Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
Paul O'Neill
#72. A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself ... so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.
Eugene O'Neill
#73. I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point ... In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.
Mary O'Neill
#74. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.
Heather O'Neill
#76. My job is to cry cock-a-doodle-doo - and after that, I do not give a shit.
Anthony O'Neill
#77. A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.
Heather O'Neill
#78. I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
Jennifer O'Neill
#80. I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me ... I think his name is ... Homer.
Jack O'Neill
#81. When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
Jennifer O'Neill
#82. I discovered early in life that living frightened me when I was sober.
Eugene O'Neill
#83. Visualizing is meant to be used as a tool to trigger an emotional response within yourself. These emotions then dictate your vibration.
Jennifer O'Neill
#85. We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.
Eugene O'Neill
#87. Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
Ed O'Neill
#88. God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap!
Eugene O'Neill
#89. Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again ... I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill were laughing.
Woody Allen
#90. Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?
Eugene O'Neill
#91. If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love.
Heather O'Neill
#92. Virgin Mary was said to have appeared there. I was pretty sure she'd had her hands joined in prayer and was crying, presumably over the inhumanity of it all, and not due to sunscreen in the eye or a loose eyelash.
Ellie O'Neill
#93. I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.
Maud Adams
#94. Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
Eugene O'Neill
#95. All love does ever rightly show humanity our tenderness.
Jamie O'Neill
#96. Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?
Jennifer O'Neill
#97. I didn't know how he managed to keep the weight of his secret when the burden of it was crushing me.
Heather O'Neill
#98. You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
Jennifer O'Neill
#100. Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
William O'Neill
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