#kin

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#am #another #art #comes #conflict

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#alone #guy #i #keep #kind

There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#feeling #laugh #little #little girls #making

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#about #been #belt #courtroom #faster

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#carpenter #doing #home #i #i am

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#archie #character #false #fool #good

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#done #going #hate #i #kind

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

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#concentrate #decision #deem #faced #fair

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#constitution #corporate #entities #framers #i