John O'Hara Quotes

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

John O'Hara

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1905 - April 11, 1970

Topics

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I think politicians really go with the tide.

Jimmy Carter

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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

John Lothrop Motley

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New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.

Andy Mineo

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All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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We can love all people while loving the law and expecting the law to be fulfilled, and that's a tricky balance.

Sonny Perdue

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

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Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Robbie Robertson

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Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

Robert Atkins

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I look up so much to those movies, 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun.' I think that stuff is so funny. I grew up just loving all that stuff and sort of idolizing Leslie Nielsen.

Rob Huebel

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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Denis Waitley

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I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

Christopher Koch

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