Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Carroll O'Connor

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• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fighting
  • Mental Illness

• Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mind
  • Same
  • Spring

• When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Book
  • Criticism

• For me, I always try to make it to the final.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mistake
  • Mistakes
  • Rise

• We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Work
  • Love
  • Play

• Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You’re here now. We’re working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Religion
  • Working

• Far in a western brooklandThat bred me long agoThe poplars stand and trembleBy pools I used to know.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Long

• Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.

  

  Aristotle
  • Parents
  • Female
  • MAle

• I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Imagination

• One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • Work
  • Kids

• Hills are terrific for running.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Running

• Television is intensely personal.

  

  Jessica Savitch

• I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Funny
  • Smart

• It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

  

  Eduardo Saverin
  • People
  • Work

• Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Bird

• How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

  

  William Cowper
  • Home
  • Dunces

• Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Faith
  • English
  • Bible

• The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • World
  • Change
  • Web

• Genius is clairvoyant.

  

  Abel Stevens
  • Genius
  • Clairvoyant

• Not all celebrities are dunces.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Dunces