Carol O'Connell Quotes

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

Carol O'Connell

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• You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • You
  • Say
  • Spy

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Political
  • Democrat
  • Orientation

• I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Best

• What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Funny

• Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Gay

• My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Lies

• I had a very boring life, which is fine. I like being boring.

  

  Jason Day
  • Life

• In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Presidential

• The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Good

• I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Hair

• In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen.

  

  Brad Thor
  • Death
  • Patriotic

• If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Hair
  • Greatness
  • Shine

• It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

  

  Count Basie
  • Think
  • Play
  • Story

• A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • May
  • Success
  • Desires

• I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Truth
  • Ideas
  • Memories

• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Wish
  • Eye
  • Library

• We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Job
  • Man
  • Better

• All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

  

  Carol O'Connell
  • Eye
  • Memories
  • Levels