I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that... →
Tim O'Reilly
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O'Rourke
I'm a rather decisive type.
Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear... →
Maureen O'Sullivan
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more... →
Joyce Carol Oates
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction... →
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The... →
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly... →
Barack Obama
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing... →
Ric Ocasek