#wit

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bin #got #happened #laden #spies

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#come #cook #even #ever #food

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#any #captivated #child #material #me

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#film #greatest #me #moments #myself

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#conclusion #did #division #i #jerusalem

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#asking #being #gives #how #person

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#asking #asking questions #came #challenged #did

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them. ↗

— John Olver

#defend #given #iraq #iraqis #know

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#kind #within #world #writing #you