List of Topics starting with [O]

I used to think I'd like to have been a pioneer on the Oregon Trail, experience untamed America.

I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You ...

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives ...

I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and ...

If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you ...

When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you ...

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. ...

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people ...

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.

How can you be so nice to me and how can you forgive me when I've been such a jerk?" Maddy appears to think for ...

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,For a ...

Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes you see the ...

For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body ...

Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This ...

Pain is inevitable in life; you can't avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself ...

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see ...

Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly ...

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go ...

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to ...

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying ...

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell ...

Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

Beauty is a radiance that orginates from within.

Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: "ontic anxiety" is the fear of fate and death. The second is "moral anxiety," from guilt, ...

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

Downloading songs is not good.

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be ...

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to ...

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. ...

He tried to imagine the handsome couple by the refrigerator as two sweaty bodies in a bedroom, one on top of the other. Which did ...

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent - admittedly in my own best interest - ...

It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a ...

Aw, you shouldn't judge a flower by who picket it.

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying ...

The famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent ligh called foxfire.

Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.

I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different ...

I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate ...

She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.

The Ego, The Thief that Steals Happiness from Our Hearts

Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about ...

Does it ever occur to women that maybe a guy might like to have a plan, you know, because he's nervous? He's not sure that ...

For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past ...

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

It's all inside of you - what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time." He pulls away ...

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; ...

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, ...

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just ...

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to ...

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through ...

There's a man in that office who wants to speak with both of you. He's wearing a very expensive suit and it's been my experience ...

Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances.

I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly ...

Growing old is God's privilege to you ... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine ... antiques are expensive and old ...

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Don't overthink yourself out of something good!

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might ...

One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd ...

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but ...

I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I

She finished just after him, scooping out fried corn and an okra-tomato-corn medley on his plate.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, ...

There was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. ...

There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need ...

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.

You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should ...

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But ...

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and ...

All that St. Kilda's gloss, that walk through old oak doors like you belong, effortless: I wanted that. I wanted to lick it off my ...

Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for ...

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next ...

Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We ...

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ...

Ifemelu sensed that the magazine was a hobby for Aunty Onenu, a hobby that meant something, but still a hobby. Not a passion. Not something ...

Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.

The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity

Once a cheater always a cheater. You can't measure your self worth off people who are quick to leave you. They were never worth your ...

Pro-life advocates don't oppose abortion because they find it distasteful; they oppose it because it violates rational moral principles. The negative emotional response follows from ...

It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego.

Over the years, they'd become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.

So good you forgot your name tag, Michelle. Something only an unprofessional idiot would do. Not the behavior of a lady I'd want working in ...

I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.