O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?”
“On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.”
“On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."”
“On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs.”
“On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.”
“On Twitter, people like me regularly get called "sore losers" by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don't know it yet.”
“On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.”
“On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!”
“On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.”
“On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.”
“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
“On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.”
Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset
“On Undecided Voters: "To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”
“On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.”
“On va clairement passer par derrière, il va moins faire le malinois lui !”
“On vaarallista omistaa rahaa.
Rahaa kuluu, väistämättähän sitä kuluu, ja kuluttuaan se loppuu, loppuu kokonaan.
Ellei rikas mies ole luontojaan ahne, hänestä rikastuttuaan sellainen tulee, totisesti tulee, se on rikastuneen miehen kohtalo.
Rikasta miestä polttaa yksi ajatus, oikeastaan kaksi.
Ensiksi se, miten säilyttää rikkautensa, ja heti perään se, miten kartuttaa rikkauttaan.
Oikeastaan rikasta miestä polttaa kolmastin ajatus, ja se on se mitä tapahtuu hänen rikkauksilleen hänen kuolemansa jälkeen.
Siksi rikas mies menee ennen pitkää naimisiin ja hankkii jälkeläisiä. Poikaansa rikas mies opettaa hankkimaan rikkautta lisää.
Perintöjä pojilleen hän jättää kaksi.
Hän jättää, joutuu rajan yli astuessaan jättämään, omaisuutensa pojilleen.
Ja toiseksi perinnokseen hän jättää kasan neuvoja, loputtomia ohjeita siitä, miten hänen rikkauksiaan tulee vaalia ja lisätä hänen kuolemansa jälkeen.
Rikkaan miehen ikuisuus on hänen poikiensa ja poikiensa poikien vaalima omaisuus, ja se vaaliminen tarkoittaa omaisuuden kartuttamista, rikkauksien kasvattamista.”
Source: Passio
“On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.”
“On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.”
“On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.”
“On vaikeaa saada ihminen ymmärtämään jotain, kun hänen palkkana riippuu siitä, ettei hän ymmärrä.”
“On vain epätäydellisyyttä, jossa on ripaus iloa.”
Source: Viimeiset
“On Valentine's Day, promise to drink too much love to get drunk, and stay drunk forever.”
“On Valentine's Day, couples in Calgary can celebrate their love for each other with couples' nude yoga - great way to get in shape and see a side of your partner you've never seen before and never want to see again.”
“On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.”
“On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.”
Source: Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
“On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.”
Source: Vegan Virgin Valentine
“On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it has struck me that much of the mental behavior that we sometimes denounce as ethnocentrism and cultural insensitivity actually derives less from our indifference or hostility than from our clumsiness and awkwardness when we leave the comfort of the English language behind... [V]enturing outside the bounds of the English language exercises and stretches our minds in ways that are essential for getting as close as we can to the act of seeing the world from what would otherwise remain unfamiliar and alien perspectives.”
Source: Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
“On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.”
“On veut toujours que l'imagination soit la faculté de former des images. Or elle est plutôt la faculté de déformer les images fournies par la perception, elle est surtout la faculté de nous libérer des images premières, de changer les images. S'il n'y a pas changement d'images, unions inattendues d'images, il n'y a pas imagination, il n'y a pas d'action imaginante. Si une image présente ne fait pas penser à une image absente, si une image occasionnelle ne détermine pas une prodigalité d'images aberrantes, une explosion d'images, il n'y a pas imagination. Il y a perception, souvenir d'une perception, mémoire familière, habitude des couleurs et des formes. Le vocable fondamental qui correspond à l'imagination, ce n'est pas image, c'est imaginaire. La valeur d'une image se mesure à l'étendue de son auréole imaginaire. Grâce à l'imaginaire, l'imagination est essentiellement ouverte, évasive. Elle est dans le psychisme humain l'expérience même de l'ouverture, l'expérience même de la nouveauté. [...] Le poème est essentiellement une aspiration à des images nouvelles.”
Source: Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
“On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.”
“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.”
“On Virtue – When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the phrase ‘ugly as sin’. But the phrase should be ‘ugly as virtue’. Sin isn’t ugly. It’s highly attractive! That’s why so many people flock to it.”
“On visiting day, he told her he was okay but sad, it was difficult but he was hanging in there, when all he wanted to say was, Look at what they did to me, look at what they did to me.”
Source: The Nickel Boys
“On vjeruje u ne-Boga i klanja mu se", rekao je jedan moj kolega o studentu koji je ispoljavao plemeniti ateistički žar.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“On voudrait parfois être cannibale, moins pour le plaisir de dévorer tel ou tel que pour celui de le vomir.”
Source: Del inconveniente de haber nacido
“On voudrait pour conclure rappeler que cette évolution s'est déroulée dans un contexte politique agité qui n'a pas été sans répercussions. Face à l'offensive des nationalistes, l'institution d'un haut enseignement supérieur français est perçue par les autorités protectorales comme un antidote. Dans son rapport de 1947, Lévi-Provençal avait souligné l'importance de constituer comme au Caire, et parallèlement à la Zitouna, « un centre d'enseignement d'arabisme moderne et laïque ». Les professeurs de l'IHET eux-mêmes sont convaincus de l'importance de leur rôle dans « la défense de la culture et de la langue française qu'assure l'Institut dans son ensemble » ; leur volonté maintes fois réaffirmée est de développer les enseignements et les cursus afin d'attirer le plus d'étudiants musulmans possible. (p119)”
Source: La formation des élites marocaines et tunisiennes
“On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.”
“On walks, make sure that your dog is not in front of you, pulling you down the street. Instead, keep your dog to your side or behind you. This will also demonstrate to your dog that you are the alpha figure.”
“On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.”
“On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.”
“On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.”
“on walls in relationships…
what if sometimes, someone’s walls
are just self-love-shaped boundaries…
and maybe not such a bad
thing at all?”
“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across”
Source: Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
“On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William”
Source: The Darkest Secret
“On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful”
“On Wednesday night, November 13, (1861), Lincoln went with Seward and Hay to McClellan's house. Told that the general was at a wedding, the three waited in the parlor for an hour. When McClellan arrived home, the porter told him the president was waiting, but McClellan passed by the parlor room and climbed the stairs to his private quarters. After another half hour, Lincoln again sent word that he was waiting, only to be informed that the general had gone to sleep. Young John Hay was enraged, " I wish here to record what I consider a portent of evil to come," he wrote in his diary, recounting what he considered an inexcusable "insolence of epaulettes," the first indicator "of the threatened supremacy of the military authorities." To Hay's surprise, Lincoln "seemed not to have noticed it specially, saying it was better at this time not to be making points of etiquette & personal dignity." He would hold McClellan's horse, he once said, if a victory could be achieved.
Though Lincoln, the consummate pragmatist, did not express anger at McClellan's rebuff, his aides fumed at every instance of such arrogance. Lincoln's secretary, William Stoddard, described the infuriating delay when he accompanied Lincoln to McClellan's anteroom. "A minute passes, then another, and then another, and with every tick of the clock upon the mantel your blood warms nearer and nearer its boiling-point. Your face feels hot and your fingers tingle, as you look at the man, sitting so patiently over there...and you try to master your rebellious consciousness." As time went by, Lincoln visited the haughty general less frequently. If he wanted to talk with McClellan, he sent a summons for him to appear at the White House.”
Source: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!”
“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh”
“On weekdays, everyone would read Armistead Maupan's "Tales of the City," published as a novel in 1978. His leading character Michael "Mouse" Toliver, a clone-ish softie himself, laments the experience of meeting men– nice mustache, Levis, a starched khaki army shirt, strong– and trying to resist visiting the bathrooms, lest he encounter the giveaway, the fantasy-killer: face creams and shampoos for days." Mouse was only being wistful, but the underlying efemmophobia was pernicious on the scene. Masculinity can be something that gay men project onto one another, only to snatch it away at the first sign of inauthenticity. That they hadn't rolled out of bed looking ruggedly handsome, but required a beauty routine to get that way.”
Source: Gay Bar: Why We Went Out