Flannery O'Connor Quotes
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
-
To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
-
Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
-
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
-
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
-
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
-
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
-
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
-
One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
-
I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
-
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
-
In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
-
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
-
She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
-
As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
-
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
-
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
-
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
-
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
-
Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?
-
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
-
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
-
Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.
-
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
