FastSaying

I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.


Robert O'Sullivan

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a h...
JULIE KAGAWA Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t...
KATE FORSYTH Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We...
MICHAEL MOORE In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no w...
ALETHEA KONTIS Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'...
DIANE LADD the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed f...
A.S. BYATT To most people today, the name Snow White evokes visions of dwarfs whistling as they work, and a wid...
TERRI WINDLING I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featu...
DEBORAH BLAKE We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious elect...
MICHAEL MOORE I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A...
BEVERLY CLEARY We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time w...
MICHAEL MOORE Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was...
TERRI WINDLING Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.
MELODY MAYER Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f...
TOM SHIPPEY The piano—that, too, was an adventure. A little girl tried to learn to play it. Her mother insiste...
LUDMILLA PETRUSHEVSKAYA There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fai...
SAMUEL LOVER ...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...
CECELIA AHERN I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we ...
JIM ED BROWN Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies ne...
PATRICK NESS I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my n...
KATE BERNHEIMER 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their...
JACK ZIPES A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
ERALDO BANOVAC American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international
BERNARD TAVERNIER Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales ar...
PAUL HENDERSON The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something...
JOSEPH JACOBS Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively...
TERRI WINDLING Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
WALTER ULBRICHT Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta...
PENINA MEZEI Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Gri...
KATE FORSYTH When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' ...
JUSTINE LARBALESTIER She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
PETER S. BEAGLE I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatu...
JULIE KAGAWA You’re wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fai...
JONATHAN DUNNE Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
CAROL ANN DUFFY My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the ...
DAVID ALAN GRIER There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ...
G. K. CHESTERTON [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run...
G.K. CHESTERTON Do not ask questions of fairy tales
JEWISH PROVERB I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to ...
SANDRA CISNEROS I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard...
AMY TAN The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the openi...
ADA CALHOUN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARY Truly, there is magic in fairy tales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time......
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, a...
SARAH CROSS Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN How many remember where they were when the war began on the 1st of September 1939?

I rem...
DANIEL DELACY But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to...
PATRICK NESS Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last c...
TERRI WINDLING I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch...
MIKE MYERS Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in ...
REGAN WALKER I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a...
AMY TAN In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
DIANA WYNNE JONES Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. They already know that dragons exist. Fairy Tal...
G.K. CHESTERTON. I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible...
G.K. CHESTERTON No one is too old for fairy tales.
NICK LAKE I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling ...
A. S. BYATT Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's suppo...
HELEN OYEYEMI When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are ca...
PAUL HENDERSON Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.
LAINI TAYLOR Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
PHILIP K. DICK In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous...
TERRI WINDLING The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually c...
TERRI WINDLING As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and we...
LAINI TAYLOR A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural pheno...
MARIE CURIE The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"...
PENINA MEZEI Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they...
G.K. CHESTERTON I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. BYATT Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am e...
CAROLYN WARNER Fairy-tales are nice.
SYD BARRETT What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th...
JACK ZIPES Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Q...
JANE YOLEN This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's -...
DENIS O'HARE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.
CECELIA AHERN I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
LANA PARRILLA During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by N...
EDWARD CAREY Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and t...
GRAHAM JOYCE One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find righ...
TERRI WINDLING Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — part...
TERRI WINDLING When they first wrote the fairy tales about love people lived to 30, in the modern world maybe we ne...
CARL WHITE Never trust the meaning of fairy tales.
LOSUNGEN I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, m...
KARA WALKER How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
BRADLEY WIGGINS I think Gilbert and Sullivan were having a really fun time making fun of (Oriental cultures).
JULIE GRITTON As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when me...
PETER S. BEAGLE

More Robert O'Sullivan

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
VINCENT O'SULLIVAN The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN We were created not to be another school of management. San Diego already has schools of management ...
ROBERT SULLIVAN We've got literally thousands of bridges across our railroad. We've come to the realization that our...
ROBERT SULLIVAN The U.N. is not going to conduct an independent review of the election results.
ROBERT SULLIVAN This affiliation is very important for us. The campus would not agree to have just another school of...
ROBERT SULLIVAN The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to ...
ROBERT C. O'BRIEN There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. From them we learned that we were ab...
ROBERT C. O'BRIEN Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. ...
ROBERT C. O'BRIEN I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remem...
ROBERT C. O'BRIEN I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol...
FRANK O'CONNOR They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...
TIM O'BRIEN We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
PATRICK O'BRIAN One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc...
JOHN O'DONOHUE In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ...
JENNY O'CONNELL Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...
SEáN O'CASEY The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You...
STEWART O'NAN All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEáN O'CASEY Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th...
MICHELLE O'LEARY I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr...
TIM O'BRIEN Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.
LOUISE O'NEILL I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ...
PETER O'TOOLE Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th...
IAN O'SHEA You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y...
STEWART O'NAN They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a ...
STEWART O'NAN The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
STEWART O'NAN Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much.
HEATHER O'BRIEN People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P.J. O'ROURKE Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your...
PEGGY O'MARA Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characteri...
DARREN O'DONNELL All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon...
JOHN O'DONOHUE I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of t...
TIM O'BRIEN We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEáN O'CASEY Well, I'm not sure where this puts me, Sire. I mean, at least with the others I know what's expected...
AMIE O'BRIEN You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, th...
JENNIFER O'NEILL For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
FLANN O'BRIEN In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...
EUGENE O'NEILL It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of sh...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortio...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you....
JOHN O'DONOHUE No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entr...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of...
JOHN O'DONOHUE All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and...
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
JOHN O'DONOHUE you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange...
TIM O'BRIEN ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe...
TIM O'BRIEN But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across...
MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...
P.J. O'ROURKE And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at...
EUGENE O'NEILL I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
FRANK O'HARA Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.
BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo...
ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r...
STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ...
STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat...
TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto...
R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti...
MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be...
R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co...
TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not...
JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ...
STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ...
TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ...
RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo...
P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ...
PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me.
KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis...
PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ...
JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio...
MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he...
HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem...
TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...
TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ...
TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d...
TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w...
TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and...
TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y...
TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo...
TIM O'BRIEN But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
TIM O'BRIEN A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of p...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink o...
TIM O'BRIEN She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR