#ill

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bands #big #big companies #built #companies

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#dogs #eyes #human #into #look

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#buckets #consecrated #disciplined #emptied #end

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#god #here #march #merely #must

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#happy #hero #millions #people #thought

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#filled #hollywood #joy #laughter #life

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#faithfully #just #liked #need #really

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#am #book #controversial #i #i am

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bad #bad manners #because #better #condition

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#action #brutal #character #grace #hard