Flannery O'Connor Quotes

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Future
  • Political
  • Moral

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Way
  • Play
  • Stronger

• A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Holiday

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• Language does not make one an elite.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Language
  • Does
  • Elite

• Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Great
  • Advice

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Great
  • Healthy

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

  

  Annie Golden
  • Tree

• No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Marriage

• I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.

  

  Lisa Frank
  • Life
  • World
  • Imagination

• When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • School
  • Business
  • Happy

• It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Artist