Top 100 O'reilly Quotes

#1. Who has the data has the power.

Tim O'Reilly

#2. O'Reilly, I've been running from the worst of myself all my life, and now it looks like the best of me just caught up.

Mel Bossa

#3. Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.

Bill O'Reilly

#4. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.

Bill O'Reilly

#5. Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.

Joel McHale

#6. I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

Tim O'Reilly

#7. I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Heather O'Reilly

#8. Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you can have right now in Ring of Honor.

Adam Cole

#9. The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Tim O'Reilly

#10. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly refuses to show the Muslim cartoons on The O'Reilly Factor, saying he doesn't want to offend anyone's religion. Someone should tell him those endless interviews with prostitutes from the Bunny Ranch and porn stars aren't high on Christians' list of enjoyable viewing either.

Ann Coulter

#11. Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

Bill O'Reilly

#12. So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

Tim O'Reilly

#13. My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Tim O'Reilly

#14. You can only control what you can control.

Heather O'Reilly

#15. That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

Bill O'Reilly

#16. As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.

Bill O'Reilly

#17. There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

Bill O'Reilly

#18. Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

Bill O'Reilly

#19. The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

Bill O'Reilly

#20. I don't really shout that much.

Bill O'Reilly

#21. Life is not a tour of gas stations.

Tim O'Reilly

#22. If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.

Bill O'Reilly

#23. My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

Adam Cole

#24. My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean ... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

Bill O'Reilly

#25. Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.

Bill O'Reilly

#26. Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

Denis Leary

#27. Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#28. Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

Tim O'Reilly

#29. You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

Bill O'Reilly

#30. The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

Bill O'Reilly

#31. First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

Ryan Sean O'Reilly

#32. Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.

Bill O'Reilly

#33. I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.

Bill O'Reilly

#34. The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

Bill O'Reilly

#35. My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

Bill O'Reilly

#36. How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan

John Boyle O'Reilly

#37. Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

Bill O'Reilly

#38. The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#39. What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Tim O'Reilly

#40. There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can't possibly get to these and do what they do best.

Tim O'Reilly

#41. Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In

Bill O'Reilly

#42. For two long years the Franks evaded detection by the Nazis. They were less than a month away from Amsterdam's liberation by the Allies when the end came. On August 4, 1944, a secret informant, whose name has never become known, gave away the family's hiding place to the Gestapo.

Bill O'Reilly

#43. Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

Tim O'Reilly

#44. Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument.

Terry O'Reilly

#45. Create more value than you capture.

Tim O'Reilly

#46. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Bill O'Reilly

#47. When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

Bill O'Reilly

#48. After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

Heather O'Reilly

#49. Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.

Bill O'Reilly

#50. Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

Bill O'Reilly

#51. If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that "Bill O'Reilly is wrong on this" or "here's an opposing view of Bill O'Reilly".

Glenn Beck

#52. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

Bill O'Reilly

#53. The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.

Bill O'Reilly

#54. The power of food is only second to sex.

Brian O'Reilly

#55. There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, 'Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A. because we want X, Y, and Z.' They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an emotional issue.

Bill O'Reilly

#56. Unlike abortion nobody gets hurt when gays marry but it does have deep implications for what kind of society we want to be. Therefore, individual states should decide the question.

Bill O'Reilly

#57. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

Ellen Hopkins

#58. While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.

Tim O'Reilly

#59. Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.

Rupert Murdoch

#60. This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

Bill O'Reilly

#61. It won't take weeks ... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

Bill O'Reilly

#62. I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

Heather O'Reilly

#63. I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements.

Tim O'Reilly

#64. Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.

Bill O'Reilly

#65. We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

Tim O'Reilly

#66. I've been thinking about you and all my fucking sauces have been splitting. O'Reilly, everything you don't say speaks to something gentle in me. Something I thought I'd choked.

Mel Bossa

#67. Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

Tim O'Reilly

#68. The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.

Bill O'Reilly

#69. It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Tim O'Reilly

#70. The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#71. At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Tim O'Reilly

#72. No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.

Tim O'Reilly

#73. If I had loved her... would that be art?

Sean Patrick O'Reilly

#74. I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

Robert Irvine

#75. Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Bill O'Reilly

#76. Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

Tim O'Reilly

#77. The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Tim O'Reilly

#78. I suppose he could be the mole," Shannon said. "What with his being completely insane and all.

C.T. Phipps

#79. The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.

Bill O'Reilly

#80. Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#81. I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

Bill O'Reilly

#82. There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

#83. For some reason, President Obama is being heckled about "don't ask, don't tell," which may be revoked. The president wants gays to be allowed to serve openly in the military.

Bill O'Reilly

#84. Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.

Earl Lee

#85. Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.

Tim O'Reilly

#86. For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.

Stephen Bennett

#87. Patton, at heart, is a simple man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. This makes him extremely poor at the sort of political posturing at which rivals such as Montgomery excel. The

Bill O'Reilly

#88. Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

Conan O'Brien

#89. You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Bill O'Reilly

#90. Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#91. God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage. - RONALD REAGAN

Bill O'Reilly

#92. An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Tim O'Reilly

#93. Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among

Bill O'Reilly

#94. Remember the Alamo" was the battle cry that led Sam Houston's troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later - and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there.

Bill O'Reilly

#95. Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Tim O'Reilly

#96. The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Tim O'Reilly

#97. Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Tim O'Reilly

#98. A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

Tim O'Reilly

#99. Mr. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals were not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Barack Obama sincerely believes that.

Bill O'Reilly

#100. My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

Bill O'Reilly

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