List of Topics starting with [O]

I hadn't learned anything new, except that another one of the Dead Elvises had an affinity for the Shop-n-Go. And Jack officially thought I'd lost ...

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to ...

If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.

I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though ...

Not about mean old nasty Mars, I tell you, mister! It's your type that is going to boil for years, and suffer and break out ...

This is not my work - this is my occupassion! It's word I created to describe what I really love to do.

Do you know much about the Vittra?""Some." He held out an orange slice to me. "Want some?""No, thanks." I shook my head. "How much is ...

I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

She took a deep breath and forgot to exhale. She wondered what it would be like if she licked him up one side and down ...

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.

I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...

I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got ...

He sounded particularly smug about that last part. Oberon, you shouldn't have done this.

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had ...

He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had ...

Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent ...

[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed.

I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, ...

Well he could hate too, hate was easy, hate would fuel him if his mother's love could not. Loyalty is our strength. He snorted a ...

Open your arms to embrace what you see, and never lose sight of what you have

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't ...

Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly ...

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

And because I love this lifeI know I shall love death as well.The child cries out whenFrom the right breast the motherTakes it away, in ...

In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its ...

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - ...

I can't wait until we go to dinner. I've heard Bear gets loaded on wine and cries, and then the whole thing dissolves into a ...

I'm hardly the first to point out that middle-class America has a parenting problem. In hundreds of books and articles this problem has been painstakingly ...

If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it ...

What's your favorite color?" he whispered against my skin as though he were asking a highly intimate question. "Blue." "Like the ocean or the sky?" ...

Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see ...

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.

I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing ...

Raising wages abroad would be good for the U.S. economy, as it would give our own industries a much-needed chance to compete.

Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated ...

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

Later ... the sports jacket became a kind of signature uniform for the museum scientist, complete with leather elbow patches. It indicated an endearing otherworldliness. ...

I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden ...

The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.

I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.

All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, ...

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them ...

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to ...

Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the ...

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, ...

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed ...

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal ...

If he ever got back to earth, he was making them list that as one of the dangers of outer space exploration, dammit. Watch out ...

Why, what should be the fear?I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

Once the ego has found an identity, it does not want to let go. Amazingly but not infrequently, the ego in search of a stronger ...

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united ...

We need the Word of God to set us free. We need biblical wisdom to set us straight. What we need is the Great Physician ...

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living ...

We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no ...

LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...

Darlin ... be-bop is the music of the future.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old ...

When you focus on problems, you'll have more Problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more oppertunities.

I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of ...

As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

The worst thing one can do for a hyperactive child is to put him or her in front of a television set. Television activates the ...

The only love that won't disappoint you is one that can't change, that can't be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs ...

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other ...

I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the ...

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of ...

Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. ...

God sometimes allows problem to come into our lives to encourage us to make a step forward

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being ...

I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the ...

The stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with overpriced Christmas junk, and the daily papers were beginning to scream about how ...

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you ...

I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, ...

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I ...

Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods and ...

We can always be sure of one thing - that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish ...

Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - ...

Waxillium found himself nodding. "You can be very wise sometimes, Wayne.""It's onnacount of my thinkin', mate," Wayne said, tapping his head, increasing the thickness of ...

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

There are so many paths in life. Some we choose, and some are chosen for us. We walk our paths without looking down and that's ...

It was as if, before she'd met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She ...

I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much ...

Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a ...

You can always find hope in the truth that our God reigns & He will take care of His own.