All Quotes

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
‐‐ Jo Brand

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.
‐‐ Graham Norton

Occasionally, we are given a reminder of how precious a gift it is to understand the plan of salvation.
‐‐ John Bytheway

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.
‐‐ Marisha Pessl

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
‐‐ Steve Swallow

Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
‐‐ Benedict Wong

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.
‐‐ John Barry

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
‐‐ Richard Pound

Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
‐‐ Frank Miller

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.
‐‐ Russ Feingold

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta

Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
‐‐ Elyn Saks

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'
‐‐ Tim Howard

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.
‐‐ Dimitar Sasselov

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.
‐‐ Roz Savage

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
‐‐ George Orwell

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Spencer rocks. But just as a human being, she's so down-to-earth. Talk about being pleasantly surprised. You walk onto set, and she's making these jokes, and she's playing around with the cast and the crew, and she invited all to her house for a dinner party. She's just a genuinely good person.
‐‐ Ciara Bravo

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
‐‐ Hal Borland

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
‐‐ Reggie Jackson

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.
‐‐ Sy Montgomery

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.
‐‐ Brendan Iribe

Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.
‐‐ Brendan Iribe

Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of view, and super-low-latency sensor tracking. It's not crappy stuff that doesn't work and makes everybody sick. When you experience Oculus technology, it's like getting religion on contact. People that try it walk out a believer.
‐‐ John Carmack