List of Topics starting with [O]

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for ...

The yachts' berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights ...

It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware ...

I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this ...

TRUST AND FAIRNESS DEVELOP HARMONY

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you ...

I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

How did it die?" he asked."Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."He looked at me like I was senile."Could have been disease. Violence. Or, ...

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford.""Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned ...

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really ...

But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and ...

Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I ...

Will you bloody say something?" I demanded at last, in a voice that shook oiliv a little. His mouth opened, but no words came out. ...

Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.

I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of ...

In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made ...

Almost every man we meet requires some civility,requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head ...

I hate the word superstar". I have never been able to think in those terms. They are overstatements. You don't hear them speak of Shakespeare ...

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the ...

Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Ora et labora, prayer and work.

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to ...

He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings.

You're stifling me brother! Can I not have a moment to myself? I swear it wouldn't surprise me to find you sitting atop me one ...

Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal."Biscuit?" said Simon."Believe ...

Dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the ...

I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.[Lat., Et ...

When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during ...

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole ...

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct ...

And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of ...

The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where ...

A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ...

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down ...

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

Freud was of the opinion that in fear a person is responding to a specific and immediate threat to physical safety while in anxiety a ...

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from ...

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an ...

You are my Muse..."~I Belong to You (Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)

Minister every day. Opportunities are all around you. Look for them. Ask the Lord to help you recognize them. You will find that most consist ...

We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American ...

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure ...

When you embrace a sacred relationship with your inner witch, you awaken within you qualities of the elements and forces of nature. This is the ...

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been ...

Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you ...

Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty. 'P-ilfering P-adgett's P-ockets Pr-oduces P-ossible P-ath to ... to - ' ...

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

The good news is that The Hangover Part III isn't a rerun like the second episode. The bad news is everything else. For all the ...

Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal ...

You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.

When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin.

Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,May they be strong to keep hate outAnd hold love in.

When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue.

Like GodGumbo is hardto get right& I don't botherasking for it outsidemy mother's house.Like life, there's no oneway to do it,& a hundred ways,from here ...

When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. ...

Because the world is God's creation and law order, it is the truth which in time shall prevail and triumph.

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school ... whatever ... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have ...

We didn't have to get through the nightmare to get our miracle. You, Nina ... you're my miracle. It's always been you

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has ...

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.

O-Sensei was frequently head to say. 'Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to harmonize the ...

A man of reason? A disinterested philosopher? I'd rather be a puppy wagging its tail.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old ...

How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely ...

Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?" Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears."Maybe in farewell, maybe ...

Can i get you anything?""I need a young priest and an old priest." Rule groaned. "is there no one on this plane who hasn't seen ...

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised ...

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the ...

The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see ... the first automatic process where by small ...

You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do ...

It is ... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from ...

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the ...

People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are ...

God may not be omnipotent, but he is omniactive.

Foggy little oxbowsForest pools where no one goesLost links of the river dreaming dreams

I rememberThe way you used to hold me.I rememberThe thrill we used to share.We seem to beStrangers passing by now.Tell me, did you forget howWe ...

I'm just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. 'Cause life ain't that complicated. It's only that complicated when you make it that ...

It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, ...

Volubility came easily to Max Ophuls, but it was just one of his many techniques of concealment, and he was never more hidden than when ...

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Anyway, then it said on the news, 'And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten.'I looked down at Jas and said, 'Ooer.' ...

Ornon says, Ornon-who-always-has-something-to-say says, the Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. That's what makes us dangerous. -Eugenides

Faith gives us the courage to endure every circumstance.

Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer ...

Outiko is not hunted; Outiko hunts, the ogimaa had said. You do not call Outiko. Outiko calls you.

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be ...