O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.”
“Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc
“Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them.”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the narcissistic aura are those in whom healthy childhood exhibitionism has been repressed. . . . If the parent puts the child to shame for showing off, the need for attention gets repressed into the unconscious. Repression means that the need is not satisfied and continues to press for expression in the adult without her being aware of it. The repressed adult may select an exhibitionistic mate to achieve vicarious satisfaction.”
Source: Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self
“Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.”
“Often how you define the problem will determine whether or not you're able to find a real solution.”
“Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.”
“Often I combine many sources to create one painting, so it is not usually one particular experience or moment that leads to its creation. I think most artists are just open nets and catch all sorts of inspiration along the way of our daily lives, and that all comes to together in strange and different ways in the studio.”
“Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.”
Source: Borderless
“Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.”
“Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.”
“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.”
Source: Travels
“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
Source: Travels
“Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.”
“Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.”
“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in an endless moment of knowing. Yesterday was today and hereon in.”
Source: The Erkeley Shadows
“Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.”
“Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible, but still they preserve the essence of the subject.”
“Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.”
“Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.”
“Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.”
“Often I have found myself gazing up at clouds – yesterday’s seas and tomorrow’s streams – to think of them as floating on an ultraviolet sea, beyond which is the infinity of space that presents so much wonder and so many questions.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.”
Source: Feather Fall: An Anthology
“Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.”
Source: My Own Story: Top Biography
“Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.”
“Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?”
Source: Little Herr Friedemann
“Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.”
“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“Often I lose myself in the constellation of my own ideas, forever searching for point of illumination. But no matter where I look, I find you, shinning and bright, offering me what ever it is I seek, you are my one single star. My sun, my moon, my guide and direction, I know as long as I have you, I'll never lose my way. Even if I can not touch you, I know I will see you, feel you, from anywhere. If I need you I know where to find you”
Source: In the Shadow of the Banyan
“Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.”
“Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.”
“Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.”
“Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.”
“Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.”
“Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.”
“Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.”
“Often I think God does not matter.”
“Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.”
“Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.”
“Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Often, I try to mirror and understand myself than others since it opens the way of vision, how to live and behave.”
“Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.”
Source: Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can
“Often I've wondered what it would feel like to be him," he whispered softly. "To feel the warmth of your skin under my cold hand or your hot breath on my lips. These last few days have been torment on my curiosity.”
Source: Sacrifice
“Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I'm going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker .”
“Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.”
Source: The Bull from the Sea
“Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.”
“Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.”