Elizabeth O'Conner Quotes

Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

Elizabeth O'Conner

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• Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • School
  • Movie

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Ask
  • Teammates

• A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Children
  • Today
  • Problem

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Service
  • Habit
  • Start

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Interested

• I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Thought
  • Years

• Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Cool

• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Water.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Water

• Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Spring

• But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Country
  • Tears

• Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Action
  • Honor

• As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Friends
  • Sun
  • Birthday

• There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you,so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own,and you go home and you cry and you want to die

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Home
  • Die

• I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Up
  • Perspective
  • Tired

• I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin' icon, you're not on the show, you know?

  

  DJ Khaled

• A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Garden

• The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Create
  • Resistance
  • Proletariat

• As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Arrest

• Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.

  

  Benny Green
  • Worry

• Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

  

  Elizabeth O'Conner
  • Peace
  • Secret
  • Discovered