Flannery O'Connor Quotes

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

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• I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Free

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Now
  • Agreement
  • Australia

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Job
  • Help

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • I Love

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Like
  • Looks

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Life
  • Own
  • Most

• I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Past
  • Peace
  • Dad

• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Dog
  • Pet
  • Sweater

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it. And if anyone is going to describe anything at all, it's going to be from the point of view of the character, because then I can use his voice, and his attitude will be revealed in the way he describes what he sees.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Good
  • Character
  • Style

• America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • America

• I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Fame
  • Hated

• I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • People
  • Door

• People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Hope
  • Novels