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

• 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

• Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Crazy

• There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Giving

• I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Horse
  • Decide

• We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Memories
  • Slavery
  • August

• For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Power
  • Memories

• We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • May
  • Dog
  • Smile

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

  

  Carol O'Connell
  • Eye
  • Memories
  • Levels