O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.”
“Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women in the audience deserved a little bit of something else after watching all those beautiful women. But I think they were shocked. Although the guys did dance nicely.”
“Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.”
“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.”
Source: The Help
“Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
“Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.”
“Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.”
“Oh, it's a case of 'they think I'll think that they'll do A, so they'll do B because I wouldn't think they'd think of that but then because I might think I know what they're thinking they'll do A after all because I wouldn't think they'd think that way,' Will said”
“Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake)”
“Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.”
Source: franny and zooey
“Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.”
“Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.”
“Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!”
“Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"”
“Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?”
“Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“Oh, its big enough,” he said patronizingly, “but somehow I was expecting…you know.” He gestured with his hands, indicating something roughly the size of a house cat. “It’s the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl,” said Isabelle. -Jace & Isabelle, pg.349-”
Source: City of Bones
“Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll.”
Source: A Hunger So Wild: A Renegade Angels Novel
“Oh, I’m just a happy person.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.”
“Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American
“Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open...I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I'm just not strong enough. Could you help me? Please? Oh, great. Oh, Jason, you're so strong... Seriously? That was me now? On the other hand , a guy was following me.”
Source: Airhead Book 3: Runaway
“Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.”
Source: Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories
“Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.”
Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition
“Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back?”
“Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.”
Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)
“Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.”
“Oh, lady be good To me.”
“Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.”
“Oh, leave it,” said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. “She’s annexed my plan!” “Will,” Tessa said firmly. “Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?” Will pointed a finger at her. “That,” he said. “The second one.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.”
Source: Lolita
“Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry,
Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam
And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.”
Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
“Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.”
“Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets
“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song”
“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.”
“Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
“Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.”
“Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.”
“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P
“Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.”
“Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.”
“Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: "Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president."”
“Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.”
“Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash”
Source: The Far Pavilions
“Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit”