#loc

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#couple #either #even #eyes #kept

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. ↗

— Alan Coren

#chocolate #clock #cuckoo #give #invented

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death. ↗

— Alan Nunnelee

#bankers #death #district #i #local

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#announced #found #gene #located #loudly

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#building #building blocks #enacting #fundamental #huge

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#eternity #find #his #location #meet

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#game #got #hurt #out #pain

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#behind #car #doing #driving #housework

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#day #december #every #every day #him

I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach. ↗

— Clive Owen

#get #i #i do #point #upsetting