I'd just count down from five, put on a move and pull up for the jump shot.
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JOANNE BRACKER Usually Temeka is able to go by you. But her pull-up jump shot . . . it's amazing how she can get it...
RICHIE ADUBATO When I saw him jump for it and it kicked away, I just put my head down. I kept on going, hoping ther...
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JACK WARNER This is not something you just sort of go 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on, ... You d...
ELIZABETH VARGAS This is not something you just sort of go, 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on,' ... You...
ELIZABETH VARGAS Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.
MATT OSBORNE She's like a wall. She sits right there in the paint, so when you get a jump shot, you've got to hav...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better te...
SUE WICKS These guys have fed off the fact that teams are focusing on Marcus and Brad. Some other guys have st...
BUDDY VALINSKY We'll start tryouts for that.
CONNOR DRUMM I wouldn't go in until I made it, shooting free throws until I made it.
CONNOR DRUMM That was great support. That was awesome. It was a great environment, so thanks, everyone, for comin...
CONNOR DRUMM The first half was all scrappy, but we settled down in the second half and started running through o...
CONNOR DRUMM It only happens once, so I'll let him do it.
CONNOR DRUMM It's really tough. Yeah, we had a great year, but it shouldn't have ended. We're the first team to w...
CONNOR DRUMM Tomorrow in the semis is where we need to make our jump. We need to pull four or five guys into the ...
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VERA FARMIGA Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
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KELLY JONES I got a hand up on the shot. He knocked the shot down. It was a good play.
ANDRE MILLER There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move,...
ROBERT FROST It really comes down to can you count to five, and frankly, I can only count to two?[Antonin] Scalia...
CLARKE FORSYTHE It was gutsy. There's another word I could use for that, but it's gutsy to come down and have the pa...
CHRIS DRURY Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to d...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS He's just a prolific scorer. He is great at hitting runners in the lane and he has great range on hi...
RICK PITINO I'm just coming down a little from the emotion. I thought we played with a lot of emotion and a lot ...
LAURA HALLDORSON If somebody wants to come up and learn to pull a 360 off a jump, we can definitely teach that.
DARRELL ROMERO There was some open ice, so I just walked in and put my head down and shot it.
BRANDON DUBINSKY There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't m...
ROBERT FROST But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few ste...
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NANCY LOPEZ I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and ju...
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NEAL SHUSTERMAN You are knocked down? Get up and move on....
PATIENCE JOHNSON She put it up on the school bulletin board, and that gave me such a jump-start toward writing more t...
LAMONT DOZIER I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but ...
ROCKY MARCIANO We get those players back, move on; get over it and go put it on CCSN. We jump right back into it. T...
TIM MOTT Every time a shot went up, I put a body on someone. You have to to get a rebound. It's not just abou...
ASHLEY CAIAFA It was a little hard not to jump up and down.
EMILY HUGHES He certainly lived up to expectations [in the scrimmage]. He missed the first one, but from then on,...
DON BROWN It opened up the rest of the game for us and put a lot of pressure on Smithfield. She knows to shoot...
GEORGE HARDISON She showed incredible patience. She didn't get down on herself and was able to move from sixth to se...
ROBYNE JOHNSON When I hit that shot, I was pretty excited. I just took a regular jump shot. I just made sure I took...
ANTHONY TOLLIVER It's on hold for the next move, either up or down, depending probably more on the GDP number,
PETER ADAMS I've used the same move and the same shot on all my shootouts. So why change up on something that is...
JUSSI JOKINEN Down the stretch, I still had the confidence to jump up and knock them down.
BRUCE HORAN This was a gutsy win. We went down five in overtime, and Chris Taft really took hold, he just took t...
JOHN DYER she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the...
TOVE JANSSON The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
JACK KEANE It's a big jump from five to two, it's tough. She's played pretty well.
DAVE PETERS I just shot it, and it went in five-hole.
MICHAEL RYDER Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
E. L. SIMPSON Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand f...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD He was magnificent down the stretch, making big shot after big shot. He criticized himself and reall...
JIM CALHOUN We just have to hold onto the ball and move it down the field and score. If we can put some points o...
AARON BAKER I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but ...
ROCKY MARCIANO I just put my head down as soon as I hit that blue line and shot it, and luckily I picked the far si...
TIM CROWDER My jump shot was on at the beginning. I came out, shot a couple, and coach told me, 'Don't settle.' ...
DONTAYE DRAPER Coach Fowler told us just to take five seconds of silence to put everything in perspective. We just ...
ANGELA PULEO What she has that other people don't have – and that we don't see that often – is that dribble, ...
LISA BLUDER He's a good weapon to have inside. He changes a lot of people's shot. He can jump fairly quick and h...
MIKE KRULL When we score inside, that opens things up on the perimeter and we've been successful when we've bee...
BRIAN BAPTISTE The numbers were OK but nothing to jump up and down about.
DAVID WU We wanted to attack at all times, even if it meant that we were just going to attack, pull the ball ...
DOUGLAS SCOTT We just put them on the ground. If you put out 8,000 eggs, you've got a huge Easter egg hunt. The eg...
BOB HALL Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemp...
MARY KARR Every time you pull the trigger without protection, you are damaging your hearing. Each and every sh...
BOB WALKER They just made one more play than us. Maynard made a great move to get to the bucket and then made t...
DONNIE CASH We just could not consistently stop them, whether it was a jump shot, whether it was a drive to the ...
GARY CLOSE It looked like we got a little tired, and it looked like we settled for outside shots. We were depen...
DOUG PESICKA Don't jump on a man unless he's down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE I just put my head down as soon as I hit the blue line and shot it. Luckily, it picked the far side....
TIM CROWDER Someone said, 'well, did you coach him?' And I just laughed and said, 'that's like asking somebody i...
ED GILLESPIE I'm in the premium position with just a few boys breathing down my neck. I should have been a boxer ...
DEAN MACEY I looked up and Sam was making a run right down the center into open space. I just saw her and she c...
KATHERINE MACMURRAY When he fell, I was the first one to jump down and help him. He stood up, his eyes just got wide and...
EVAN SAVOIE "If only I had to....." - is something never undone..
FRANWIN You demand excellence and excellence demands your every move better
MYRA YADAV, MOVE ON I've been working on my jump shot lately, just going into the gym and trying to work on it and it's ...
FOLARIN CAMPBELL Someone is going to have to step up that's not supposed to. We're just evenly matched with them (Pir...
BRENT FAUROTE Coach Rogers told me to just keep shooting. We crashed the boards hard, and when I shot and missed, ...
BRITTANY MOORE It was a great play by Matt Anderson knocking the puck down and finding Davis on a quick transition....
DON CAHOON This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.
ALAN BLACK You are not remembered for who you pull down, but who you lift up.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR He said, 'You've just got to be smart. Be patient. 'And when you make a move, make it count.
MEB KEFLEZIGHI It was devastating to see my baby laying there on that table and I just talked to him just last nigh...
DELBERT WILLIAMS The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young pe...
ROBERT CLARK Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD A couple of plays before (his jump shots) I passed up a shot in the lane and Stephen Jackson got on ...
DANNY GRANGER Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE It's very unusual for someone to move up that quickly. It takes two to three, maybe four to five yea...
ANTHONY GALLINO Dejuan needs to work on getting off his jump shot during games. He has a soft touch, but he does not...
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CONNOR DRUMM It only happens once, so I'll let him do it.
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JAN DRUMM Probation didn't work. Because it was a second offense, she was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
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CONNOR FRANTA The thing about the Internet is we take everything too far. Once something becomes 'popular'...
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CONNOR FRANTA I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people i...
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CONNOR FRANTA For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do...
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CONNOR FRANTA I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming mu...
CONNOR FRANTA I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and...
CONNOR FRANTA YouTube is, like, the new reality television.
CONNOR FRANTA Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be...
CONNOR FRANTA You are who you are, and you should love that person.
CONNOR FRANTA Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af...
CONNOR FRANTA It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have...
CONNOR FRANTA Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice ve...
CONNOR FRANTA Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equa...
CONNOR FRANTA confront your greatest fears
voice your biggest problems
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CONNOR JESSUP When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. Al...
CONNOR FRANTA Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and ...
CONNOR FRANTA sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside
CONNOR FRANTA Anytime you get your first win it is something that you have worked toward since way back in the sum...
ANDREW CONNOR When you see how many times we rushed consecutively, that says a lot about our kids will, and they w...
ANDREW CONNOR When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted i...
ANDREW CONNOR College did kind of inspire it. I'm a little bit far removed from it now.
ANDREW CONNOR I don't really pretend to be the same person I was when I wrote the record. I don't think the band i...
ANDREW CONNOR It comes down to wrapping up. There were some plays there we didn't wrap up. We set our stage for wh...
ANDREW CONNOR When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experien...
CONNOR FRANTA No one ever changed the world waking up at noon.
CONNOR CHALFANT There are certain housing codes, building codes that the landlord is required by law to adhere to, b...
JOHN CONNOR The first thing I suggest is before you ever sign a lease you come in here and let me review it. I w...
JOHN CONNOR We've been extremely successful. There's just much more to do.
JOHN CONNOR Everyone in the process makes a cut of the pie. The attorney who does the closing, the real estate a...
SID CONNOR After the surgery I could barely stand up. It's really frustrating having to take slow steps back.
CONNOR RABINOWITZ Once people start playing the game, they're going to forget we're not in the NCAA Tournament and jus...
CONNOR BARWIN It's definitely not good for us. All we can do is go out and get a win against West Virginia and hop...
CONNOR BARWIN People are pretty disappointed with how we came out and played. I don't know what happened. We just ...
CONNOR BARWIN It was amazing what he did. He was out of it, but he refused not to play in the second half. It's go...
CONNOR BARWIN I guess you could say that's where I got my toughness from.
CONNOR BARWIN Now, we do not believe that Sen. Lott is a racist, ... But such thoughtless remarks -- and the senat...
KEN CONNOR We always knew this happened, but the process was like a black box. Now, we know that the matrix pro...
JOHN CONNOR He's been pretty crazed about it. He's gotten us checked like three times. He's handed out cream lef...
CONNOR MCDONALD She started backing up and then she said, 'The heck with this. I think I'll just kill you,'
GEORGE CONNOR It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, b...
CONNOR FRANTA This is not an antagonistic move. We're more than happy to work in a collaborative manner with the a...
ANNE CONNOR We have more support than we had when we first got the cards signed. It really looks very good.
ANNE CONNOR We're very excited. This is actually beyond our wildest dreams.
ANNE CONNOR The board's concerns were with the frequency and quality of her consultation with the board that has...
CHUCK CONNOR This is huge. But we've got a lot left to go. We've got to get in there, dig deep and be ready to go...
MICHELLE CONNOR One of the emerging trends in Australia is house breaks where the keys are stolen, because nowadays ...
DENNIS CONNOR I was scared. I mean, no one's going to get excited when someone tells you they're going to have to ...
CONNOR RABINOWITZ If it's a photo-centric project, you can do the layout in Photoshop, but if it's illustration-centri...
KEVIN CONNOR It's huge. I feel like we finally broke through. We held on and showed some guts at the end of the g...
CONNOR HUGHES When you're back there dropping in pass coverage looking every which way and you just see the quarte...
DAN CONNOR It's like a mini Iowa-Iowa State.
CONNOR JOSTES Now we do not believe that Sen. Lott is a racist, ... But such thoughtless remarks -- and the senato...
KEN CONNOR Bank of America is a recognized leader in the natural gas, power and oil markets. With the addition ...
TOM CONNOR This has been very gratifying. Customers like the open approach, and when they're happy, we're happy...
KEVIN CONNOR He's unbelievable -- he's got a cannon for an arm. He's almost impossible to intercept because he th...
DAN CONNOR When I went in, my guy was sitting in the paint. He wasn't even guarding me. That's the most disresp...
CONNOR BARWIN Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at scho...
CONNOR FRANTA I had a good tournament. I had three falls: one tech fall and two pins. My final match, I was up 13-...
CONNOR MCDONALD The players look good and they are charismatic, which is partly why the game is spreading to new aud...
CLARE CONNOR I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best...
CONNOR PAOLO A bad dream can ruin your night, but a dream not chased can ruin your life.
CONNOR CHALFANT Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, ...
CONNOR FRANTA I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day t...
CONNOR PAOLO I like the weather. In Holland, snowy, ice, cold rain.
DEBBY CONNOR This is the most home runs I've hit. The pitching here is so slow. I gotta be patient.
DEBBY CONNOR The virus doesn't respect any borders. Any uncontrolled movement or handling within countries or acr...
DIDA CONNOR The government has worked hard to strengthen preparedness and prevention efforts and good progress h...
DIDA CONNOR Certainly the measures that have been taken [in Vietnam] will have contributed to the [improved] sit...
DIDA CONNOR That's how the system has always been, they [sellers] have become accustomed to it and they can't co...
SID CONNOR I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.
CONNOR JESSUP If you ask him, he would have played the next day, or the next down for that matter.
DAN CONNOR There's a lot of good young players on this team, and most of you guys don't even know about them.
DAN CONNOR It gave us a chance to stand back and kind of be a team again.
DAN CONNOR Our coaches did a great job designing a defense that took away some of the things they like to do an...
DAN CONNOR Everyone feels that Penn State is back. We're back on the map.
DAN CONNOR Ultimately, that was what they were looking for. There was no point to go five years -- if you were ...
CONNOR TRINNEER My life is dedicated to that man. I hear from his mom and family that's the only thing that keeps th...
CONNOR RABINOWITZ I'm having a great time. It's obviously fun, but I don't think about baseball when I'm in bed. I thi...
CONNOR RABINOWITZ Luis is always tough. He always comes out hard and really goes out for me and I always have a nice t...
CONNOR MCDONALD I'm sure he did that on purpose.
CONNOR JOSTES The protection was there and the receivers were just running routes. When those two things combine, ...
CONNOR JOSTES We have everybody back, so we don't have to teach the basic stuff. We're working on advanced stuff. ...
CONNOR JOSTES The defense is the heart of our team. The defense has carried us in practice. When things aren't goi...
CONNOR JOSTES Bring 'em on. No one expects us to go in there and win, except our team. We're competitors.
CONNOR JOSTES I think it worked out great for me. I couldn't ask for a better situation.
CONNOR HUGHES I just wanted to get out and have some fun, look like an athlete.
CONNOR HUGHES They were the better team (Sunday). If we played all game like we did in the third, I don't know if ...
CONNOR HUGHES It was just a great way to finish for me.
CONNOR HUGHES Every kick I've had this year, I've felt comfortable with. Coach Groh hasn't had to push me back too...
CONNOR HUGHES I didn't compensate at all ... if anything it might have been a little bit at my back.
CONNOR HUGHES Yeah, it's a place that I'm pretty confident from. But it feels a little more at home than the right...
CONNOR HUGHES It's probably up there. I can't remember which ones are up there with it, but there have been a few ...
CONNOR HUGHES I just wanted to keep my head down and let it ride. That's what I tried to do.
CONNOR HUGHES It's a lot easier for me to get into the rhythm of the game playing on back-to-back days.
CONNOR BURNHAM Disregard nuisances and obstacles, for they are merely a brush-stroke on the bigger picture
CONNOR SKEY In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.
LESLIE CONNOR Passion fuels dreams. Commitment fuels action. Get clear about what you want to do and why you want ...
JULIE CONNOR We've been watching the guys and been inspired by their fight and the way they're playing. We've had...
CLARE CONNOR I never had one compliment. They were asking why we were giving that ice time away.
GLEN CONNOR All things being equal, I think it is going to be the issue that decides the race between them becau...
GEORGE CONNOR It's gentle cajoling rather than arm twisting.
GEORGE CONNOR It's a lot of money. ... I think it shows that the party is serious about keeping the seat.
GEORGE CONNOR I think the taxpayers of Missouri would feel better served if the governor spent more time in Jeffer...
GEORGE CONNOR [George Connor, associate professor of political science at Missouri State University, said the loss...
GEORGE CONNOR Historically, lobbyists have played an important role in drafting legislation, in twisting arms and ...
GEORGE CONNOR As Cassville goes, so goes the nation,
GEORGE CONNOR When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are...
JULIE CONNOR I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing
CONNOR FRANTA They shot the ball so well. I definitely don't have any regrets. We went down trying.
KATIE CONNOR I don't think anyone expected us here because we're so young. Caitlin is an amazing player, but we d...
KATIE CONNOR We have something really special this year and a great bond on this team, both on the court and off ...
KATIE CONNOR We didn't want the season to end and we're not the type of group that gives up.
KATIE CONNOR We had something special together. We just didn't want it to end.
KATIE CONNOR They had double the kids that we had out there, but we had seven kids that worked hard on the court ...
MATT CONNOR As you explore new opportunities and new directions, consider this:
• How do I want to make a...
JULIE CONNOR Our goal was to see Aubrey run faster than last year,
RALPH CONNOR My mom has since confirmed that my overeager go-to response - when I was going anywhere or had anyth...
CONNOR FRANTA Know this too: Some people won't like you, and you won't like everyone. That's okay. None of that ma...
CONNOR FRANTA I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, ...
CONNOR FRANTA Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second,...
CHARLES E. CONNOR Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second,...
CHARLES E. CONNOR Vision doesn't happen in the eye. It happens at multiple processing stages in the brain. We study ho...
CHARLES E. CONNOR Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second,...
CHARLES E. CONNOR Our ability to see is one of the great evolutionary accomplishments of the human brain. We still don...
CHARLES E. CONNOR I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.
KEEGAN CONNOR TRACY 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 In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR 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 Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is beyond logic that we see the light.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
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