O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it.”
“Once I started I couldn’t put it down. It was so addictive . . . like a train wreck.”
Source: Cross My Heart
“Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.”
“Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.”
“Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.”
“Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.”
“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.”
“Once I started seeing the college clinic psychiatrist, he pulled out my blood and showed me what was really in it, glanced at each trace mineral in the lab results, each lurking marker, but his eyes were focused on the good stuff, the chemicals he'd put there. I don't know if I believe in "Indian blood," but at times, I have wished I could test positive for it when the phlebotomist pulled my blood every month, checking to make sure my lithium levels aren't high enough to pickle my kidneys. Instead, the doctor only ever reads off results that sound like the bottom of a deep quarry, as though my body collects stones.”
Source: My Body Is a Book of Rules
“Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.”
“Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.”
“Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.”
“Once I started sleeping full time, I didn't look out my windows very often. A glimpse was all I ever wanted. The sun rose in the east and set in the west. That hadn't changed, and it never would.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.”
“Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.”
Source: Exit Strategy
“Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.”
“Once I started to develop ‘Summit Brain’ away from the very high altitude workplace, it was all downhill from there.”
“Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'”
“Once I started to look i finally began to see.”
“Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion---to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.”
Source: The Happiness Project
“Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.”
“Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.”
“Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.”
“Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.”
“Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.”
“Once I step on the court in San Antonio, I feel the support in the air.”
“Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.”
“Once I stop caring about you, I won’t even look at you.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.”
“Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't like them that much!" I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable.”
“Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.”
“Once I stopped running from the past and intentionally leaned into the memories to examine them, I wasn’t haunted by the past anymore.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Once I stopped trying so damn hard to be someone else, I started to enjoy life. Being alone was hard, but better than feeling shitty about myself all the time”
Source: American Panda
“Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.”
“Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.”
“Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.”
“Once I thought forgiveness was great, now I see repentance to be even greater for it is life-giving. These United States are strong because they have the capacity to see and correct mistakes, to change and grow.”
Source: Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage
“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.”
“Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
You could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip.”
“Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.”
“Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.”
“Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.”
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
“Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.”
Source: The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People
“Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.”
“Once, I told you, ‘never settle unless it’s forever.’ I was wrong, Alex. Not about never settling. No, never about that. We must never settle for less than what we’re worth.”
Tears generously fell down Marjorie’s cheeks. “I was wrong about the forever part. Because it takes two to forever, Alex. You can’t have forever without taking risks, making choices, and working on them—together—for a lifetime. You only have a lifetime to write your own story. Make every second last.”
Source: It's Not Just Semantics
“Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.”
“Once, I took the penny whistle
you gave me and discovered a spot
by the roaring falls where I could play
as loud as I wanted.
I lay in the bifurcated trunk
of a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked
through applauding leaves, high overhead.”
“Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.”
“Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.”
Source: Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit
“Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.”
“Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.”