Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I don't have my novel outlined, and 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 over again.Flannery O'Connor
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
Ted Turner -
Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos -
This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
Edith Widder -
I've got nothing very original to say myself.
A. N. Wilson -
The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
Felix Dennis -
I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
Dan Rather
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Jack Horner -
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez -
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright -
I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
Larry King -
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White -
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Jack Levine
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Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian -
I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
A.J. Styles -
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu -
I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
Daniel Cormier -
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
Carly Patterson -
Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
Samuel P. Huntington
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
Gary Vaynerchuk -
As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
Kate Clinton -
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
Ernest Hemingway -
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
Naomi Campbell -
For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.
Tilda Swinton -
I don't have my novel outlined, and 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 over again.
Flannery O'Connor