Eugene O'Neill Quotes

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Eugene O'Neill

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• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • You
  • Style

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Habit
  • Habits
  • Trail

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Christian
  • Years
  • Favourite

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Parent
  • Losing

• This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Art
  • Help
  • Know

• The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beautiful
  • New York
  • Editors

• Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Women
  • High

• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Today
  • House

• Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women
  • American
  • Hope

• A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Small
  • Wall
  • Fly

• I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Bad
  • Challenge

• I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Champion

• I do this system called TRX. It was developed by a Navy SEAL and is basically a simple cord that you can wrap around something anywhere, anytime, and you use your body weight as resistance. We installed one in our home gym, but you can also attach it to a tree. It's very easy to travel with.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Home
  • Simple
  • Travel

• Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Poetry
  • Criticism
  • Ignore

• I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

  

  Donna Karan
  • World

• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Balance
  • Novelists
  • Thumbs

• I want our future leaders to know what's possible and to be part of a world where diversity and gender equality aren't special programs but the natural way of operating.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • World
  • Future
  • Diversity

• We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Spirit