O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Overhead, raindrops land on the skylight, backlit by glare from the security light at the old ferry dock next door. Silver droplets race down the glass, shimmering ribbons under the fogbound sky. It’s been a dreadful June, as everyone keeps saying. The gray weather doesn’t bother Tova”
Source: Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Overhead the constellations dip and wheel. My divinity shines in me like the last rays of the sun before they drown in the sea. I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
Source: Circe
“Overhead the constellations dip and wheel. My divinity shines in me like the last rays of the sun before they drown in the sea. I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.
All my life, I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.”
Source: Circe
“Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.”
Source: Duke of Midnight
“Overhead the sliver of a moon barely illuminated anything and shadows slunk on every corner.”
Source: Stolen Petals
“Overhead there lies an uninterrupted ocean of delicate blue whose expanses are freely coursed by majestic white behemoths quietly sailing to distant horizons. And under our feet there are listless expanses of emerald-green brilliantly splashed by the golden pigment of a thousand dandelions. And to stand in unbridled awe of both is to miss neither, for to miss such things is to miss life itself.”
“Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.”
“Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.”
“Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”
“Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."”
“Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?”
“Overheating electrical equipment was one of the first problems I started to troubleshoot at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm.”
“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”
“Overigens is wat wij gewoonlijk vrienden en vriendschappen noemen niet meer dan een door een of ander toeval of vordeel tot stand gekomen bekendheid of vertrouwdheid met iemand, waarin de geesten elkaar vinden. In de vriendschap waarvan ik spreek, vermengen en versmelten beide geesten zich tot een zo alles omvattend samengaan, dat ze de naad die hen verbindt foen verdwijnen en niet meer terugvinden. Als men bij mij zou aandringen te zeggen waarom ik van hem hield, voel ik dat dat alleen uitgedrukt kan worden door te antwoorden: 'Omdat hij het was; omdat ik het was'.”
Source: Essays
“Overinsure everything.”
“Overlapping equations can weigh us down; so resolving the most crucial complications first, means we then have more calculation processing to solve the rest.”
“Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.”
“Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.”
“Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.”
“Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]”
“Overlooked by her parents, and ignored by her brother Theo, who had spent most of his short life at boarding schools or in London, Helen had turned to her inner world of books and imagination. Her suitors had been Romeo, Heathcliff, Mr. Darcy, Edward Rochester, Sir Lancelot, Sydney Carton, and an assortment of golden-haired fairy tale princes.”
Source: Marrying Winterborne
“Overlooked in this ominous depiction might be our country’s best- kept secret: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every gener- ation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority and its corporate enablers has defined our quintessential American story.”
Source: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition
“Overlooking the world, he felt a strange sense of fellowship—like they belonged here, at the edge of it all, facing the Darkness with the Light within.”
Source: Golgotha
“Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.”
Source: The Three-Body Problem
“Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.”
“Overmodulation
By Charlotte M Liebel-Fawls
You're a cavity in my oasis,
You're a porthole in my sea,
You're a stretch of the imagination
every time you look at me.
You're an ocean in my wineglass,
You're a Steinway on the beach,
You're a captivating audience,
an exciting Rembrandt,
A Masterpiece.”
“Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.”
Source: The Assistant
“Overnight I became a cottage industry.”
“Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.”
“Overnight success does not exist.”
Source: Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers
“Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.”
“Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in ... you're up and down, all of a sudden, it just clicks. And I think that's what's happened to me since I got to Montreal. And I'm proud of the things we've been able to accomplish ... we've all made each other great.”
“Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks”
“Overnight success stories are not the entire story”
“Overnight success stories take a long time.”
“Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and the services of Eric Lundquist, a mechanical engineer and former popcorn distributor who had reinvented himself as a expert in drying out wet things. The notion of putting the books in with groceries didn't faze Lundquist, since he'd freeze-dried his first salvaged books alongside a summer's worth of peas and carrots from his garden.”
Source: The Library Book
“Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.”
“Overnight, the world had taken on an eerie flatness, a still life depicted in monochrome.”
Source: Edge of Sundown
“Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.”
“Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was ok to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.”
Source: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
“Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism”
Source: Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 1: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
“Overpay good baby-sitters.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.”
“Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet”
“Overpopulation is by far the worst kind of pollution.”
“Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.”
“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”
“Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.”
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954