O Quotes
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“On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.”
“On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.”
“On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.”
Source: History in Our Time
“On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.”
“On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.”
“On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.”
“On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim, and you will swear that heaven is on earth.”
“On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.”
“On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.”
“On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.”
“On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.”
Source: Selected poems
“On silence: Silence is an important language. Not speaking can be an intensely relational act.
… Repression is a kind of silence, and also shapes voice. [p. 23]
The silencer has power. The dominant culture defines what is spoken about, what is repressed. The effect on the non-dominant culture (in this case women or girls) is to learn the language of camouflage. She learns to disassociate from her own knowing and her own voice.[p. 50] from WOMEN VOICE AND WRITING”
Source: Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice
“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!”
“On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.”
“On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”
“On six occasions, she appeared before the Court to present oral argument. She lost just one case. Through her briefs, starting with Reed, she, more than any other lawyer, shaped the legal arguments reflected in the Court’s opinions, earning her the honorific “the Thurgood Marshall of the women’s movement.”
Source: My Own Words
“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.”
“On sleep and waking > I. General introduction: problems involving sleep (page 104)
And is it possible to foresee future events, or is this impossible? And in what manner is it possible, if it is? And are these future events human actions only, or do they include those which have a marvellous cause and those that occur by nature or spontaneously?”
Source: On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works
“On sleep and waking > I. General introduction: problems involving sleep (page 104)
In addition, what is a dream? And owing to what cause do persons sleeping sometimes have dream-visions and sometimes not? Or is it the case that those asleep always dream but do not always remember it? And if this happens, what is the cause?”
Source: On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works
“On sleep and waking (page 104)
Sleep and waking must now be investigated: what are they? Do they belong exclusively to the soul or to the body, or are they common to both?”
Source: On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works
“On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.”
“On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.”
“On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.”
“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“On social barriers, VJ Simon, the Indian-Jewish venture capitalist in The Best People observed: "Some of those rich and powerful people I met risked a few dollars with me. They only risked money. They didn't risk their social status. We never met at one of their clubs. We had lunch at Elegante. I thought of it as the five o' clock curtain.”
Source: The Best People: A Tale of Trials and Errors
“On social media and [in person] I hear stories of how a song like "Home" helps. Whether it's a guy overseas coping with missing his family or something deeper and terribly dramatic. Somebody once told me that ["Home"] is the song they listen to when they go to the cemetery to visit their child that passed away. It gives them hope. At the end of the day, that's all what I want to offer people.”
“On social media facebombing is common – this means constant attention. Beware if your boyfriend or girlfriend stalks you. That is not a healthy pattern and is abuse. Be strong and walk away, do not take abuse. It never gets better.”
“On Social Media people always seem to appear and then disappear. Befriend you as a writer perhaps because they think that you can just help them reach their goals or just maybe because they've heard of you. On some? Like on Instagram? Follow you and then unfollow you in their own shallow pathetic pursuit of looking popular. Not giving two shits about you or have any real interest in your actual work. Once upon a time that used to really bother me because they obviously lack authenticity & any manners. But after thirty some years of writing & publishing and creating and actually earning all of the merits and being myself, being true to the words and all the poetry that is the only real thing that truly matters? I simply say to all of them.
Fuck you. I'm R.M. Engelhardt
And if you haven't heard of me or read any of my work then obviously you don't really know much about poetry”
Source: WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT
“On Social Media, remember, behind every glamorous selfie is a mountain of debt and a therapist's bill.”
“On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."”
“On social media, you will be fighting someone who is nobody. Who is trying so hard to be somebody by fighting you? Most people are not sane or normal and some are lost, broken, angry, hungry, bitter, and jealous. Never experienced any love or attention. They have nothing they have worked for and nothing to lose. You should not entertain anyone and everything on Social Media.”
“On social media, like on Instagram and stuff that I post, and the way that I view myself, and portray myself on there, that's definitely a much more personalized take. I'm not collaborating with people to make that, it's my own social media platform in which I'm - it's not a character, it's just me.”
“On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.”
“On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.”
“On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.”
“On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
“On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.”
Source: Emily Dickinson in Southern California
“On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.”
“On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.”
Source: Sleeping with the Sun
“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“On some days you will know where you are going. And on some days you will not know where you are going. You have to keep the belief and trust in yourself. And you have to embrace both such types of days in your life!”
“On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.”
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.”
Source: The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?
“On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
some pious drops the closing eye requires;
even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
even in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
Source: Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
“On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.”
Source: Paper Towns
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
“On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, and that topic takes over my life - fabric scraps scattered on the floor, little jars of white sludge cuddled by blankets on my kitchen countertops. When I learned to play guitar in my thirties, no one had to schedule my practices. My guitar lived on a stand in the living room and I tormented our ears multiple times a day until my fingers bled. Passion for learning has that fiery, consuming, can't-stop quality.”
Source: The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
“On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.”
“On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or connect to. It's not that we see the world in the same way because we have very different points of view, but we're both visual stylists.”
“On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.”