Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Flannery O'Connor

• Attention
• Never
• Staring

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Son

• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Career
  • Day
  • End

• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Travel
  • Where
  • Somewhere

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Thoughts
  • Well

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Life
  • Me
  • Army

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.

  

  Sia LSD

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  

  David Cameron
  • World
  • Fall
  • Taken

• An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

  

  Andre Breton

• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Staring