Conor Oberst Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
-
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
-
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
-
I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
-
Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
-
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
-
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
-
I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
-
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
-
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
-
When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
-
You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
-
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
-
If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
-
I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.
-
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
-
I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
-
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
-
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
-
You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.
-
We are also urgently working with industry to identify how key routes can be re-established by other airlines as soon as possible.
-
We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.
-
When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.
-
So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
