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I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job. — Carroll O'Connor

Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation. — Flannery O'Connor

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge. — Flannery O'Connor

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor

The dead don't bother with particulars. — Flannery O'Connor

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce. — Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns

There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be. — Julieanne O'Connor

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season. — Julieanne O'Connor

antithetical to the new Germanic cultural identity undermined — Anne-Marie O'Connor

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. — Flannery O'Connor

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will. — Flannery O'Connor

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll. — Sinead O'Connor

lilting cadence, — Anne-Marie O'Connor

The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course. — Flannery O'Connor

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself. — Flannery O'Connor

Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked. — Flannery O'Connor

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that's going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff. — Renee O'Connor

good design...is intelligence made visible"; — Zena O'Connor

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor

There is a God. God exists. — Sinead O'Connor

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. — Flannery O'Connor

I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything. — Flannery O'Connor

I am the menial, at the beck and squawk of any feathered worthy who wants service. — Flannery O'Connor

This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed. — Flannery O'Connor

Unadaptability is often a virtue. — Flannery O'Connor

In yourself right now is all the place you've got. — Flannery O'Connor

You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more. — Julieanne O'Connor

Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. — Flannery O'Connor

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons. — Flannery O'Connor

I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. — Flannery O'Connor

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like. — Sinead O'Connor

A God you understood would be less than yourself. — Flannery O'Connor

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually. — Sinead O'Connor

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ. — Sinead O'Connor

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter. — Sinead O'Connor

Once you told a secret it was loose in the world, it was a wild thing — Scott O'Connor

Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood, — Flannery O'Connor

Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium. — Flannery O'Connor

You are not for everyone. But you are for someone. — Julieanne O'Connor

I thought the butler always did it," someone remarked under their breath. — Carlene O'Connor

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. — Sandra Day O'Connor

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee. — Flannery O'Connor

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices. — Flannery O'Connor

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life. — Sinead O'Connor

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor. — Renee O'Connor

The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care. — Flannery O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones. — Erin O'Connor

I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing. — Flannery O'Connor

The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist — John Joseph O'Connor

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got. — Carroll O'Connor

Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. — Flannery O'Connor

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them. — Sinead O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. — Carroll O'Connor

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion. — Flannery O'Connor

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman. — Sandra Day O'Connor

God is something that needs rescuing from religion. — Sinead O'Connor

Dying is overrated. Murder is not. — Tj O'Connor

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be. — Flannery O'Connor

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person. — Joseph O'Connor

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight. — Sinead O'Connor

As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically. — Erin O'Connor

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves. — Kirsty Murray

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme — Flannery O'Connor

Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away. — Flannery O'Connor

This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses. — Tom O'Connor

The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled to the extent that we live in relationships. — Elizabeth O'Connor

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first. — Renee O'Connor

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective. — Erin O'Connor

an interaction is not a relationship; rather, a relationship is the remembered history of previous interactions. — Kevin J. O'Connor

I'm tired of being the nail...I wanna be the hammer for once! — Ryan O'Connor

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in. — Gavin O'Connor

To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence. — Flannery O'Connor

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical! — Erin O'Connor

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality — Sinead O'Connor

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved. — Erin O'Connor

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie ... Would that be intimidating? — Sandra Day O'Connor

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. — Sinead O'Connor

Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition. — Flannery O'Connor

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. — Sandra Day O'Connor

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was. — Erin O'Connor

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave. — Sinead O'Connor

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention. — Varley O'Connor

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was. — Flannery O'Connor

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either. — Donald O'Connor

The main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor

Trust is not hoping your partner will love you; it is KNOWING that they DO. — Julieanne O'Connor

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor

Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior. — Kelly O'Connor McNees

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Happy as a threaded needle — Joseph O'Connor

I fell in love with Africa while I was there. — Renee O'Connor