Brandon O'Neill > Brandon's Quotes

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
― Woody Allen

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.”
― D. B. C. Pierre, Vernon God Little

“Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can.”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back

“This thing hadn’t been here this morning. She would’ve noticed it. Which meant that it had grown a full foot in a matter of hours. In the dead patch, where nothing grew.”
― Kenneth Opel, Bloom

“I hate this juice! I hate this place! I hate this life! I hate being Tommy Tomkins!”
― Jonathan Hill, Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
― Flannery O' Connor, Wise Blood

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood