O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them.”
“Once I win, everyone will know who my instructor is in mixed martial arts.”
“Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.”
“Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.”
“Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.”
“Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.”
“Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.”
“Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.”
“Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.”
“Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California.”
“Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.”
“Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.”
“Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react.”
“Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react. Like, for instance, one time someone was introducing me to Bill Maher, and I saw Meryl Streep walk into the room, and I literally put my hand right in Bill Maher's face and said, "Not now, Bill!", and I just stared at Meryl Streep... I just creepily stared at her.”
“Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.”
“Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .”
“Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.”
“Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.”
“Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.”
“Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.”
“Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.”
“Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.”
“Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.”
“Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.”
“Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.”
“Once I've settled on something I'll stay with that at least throughout the whole tour.”
“Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.”
“Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.”
Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.”
“Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.”
“Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken”
“Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.”
Source: The Arrogance of Power
“Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.”
“Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?”
“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”
“Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.”
“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.”
Source: Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned
“Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times
“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
Source: The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
“Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.”
“Once in a great while, she was distressed by the way she looked. As she was rounding the bend to forty she would write to Avis DeVoto that whenever she read Vogue she "felt like a frump....but I suppose that is the purpose of all of it, to shame people out of their frumpery so they will go out and buy 48 pairs of red shoes, have a facial, pat themselves with deodorizers, buy a freezer, and put up the new crispy window curtains with a draped valence."
Julia was able to deconstruct the disingenuous motives that drive women's magazines with the ease she normally reserved for deboning a duck, seeing quite clearly that while ostensibly offering inspiration and useful advice, the stories and articles quietly pummel the reader's sense of self, the better to drive her into the arms of the advertisers.”
Source: Julia Child Rules: Lessons On Savoring Life
“Once in a green time, a flower
Oh, fell in love with the sun;
Their passion lasted for an hour,
And then she wilted from her loved one.”
“Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so.”
“Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.”
“Once in a lifetime, someone enters your life; explodes the very core of your soul everywhere and alters your life forever. It is a beautiful experience...one that is always treasured; and...exquisite.”
“Once in a lifetime,
We are blessed with the opportunity to hear sweet voices like
Roberta Flack or Lauryn Hill.”
“Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.”
Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
“Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.”