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SAOIRSE RONAN All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go ...
SAOIRSE RONAN The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
SAOIRSE RONAN I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.
SAOIRSE RONAN Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I...
SAOIRSE RONAN Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it w...
SAOIRSE RONAN I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.
SAOIRSE RONAN The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way th...
SAOIRSE RONAN It is also a testament to the role that Ireland and its citizens have played towards combating world...
RONAN KEATING I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol...
FRANK O'CONNOR We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
PATRICK O'BRIAN One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc...
JOHN O'DONOHUE In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ...
JENNY O'CONNELL Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...
SEáN O'CASEY The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You...
STEWART O'NAN All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEáN O'CASEY Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th...
MICHELLE O'LEARY I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.
LOUISE O'NEILL I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ...
PETER O'TOOLE Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th...
IAN O'SHEA You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y...
STEWART O'NAN They should."
"Should be like a wood bee," she said.
It was a private joke, a ...
STEWART O'NAN The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
STEWART O'NAN Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR