Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Flannery O'Connor

Quotes to Explore

I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

Nathan Fillion
- School
- Day
- Sick
I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

Ralph Bellamy
- People
- World
- Country
Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

Sam Hunt
- Life
- Up
- Balance
There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

Carles Puigdemont
- Day
- Independent
- Push
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Fatty Arbuckle
- Children
- Hands
- Reward
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Vidal Sassoon
- Good
- She
- Mother