| Norman O. Brown |  Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown |
| Norman O. Brown | In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown |
| Norman Rockwell | My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
Norman Rockwell |
| obligation | If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne Dyer
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| obstinacy | The sense of sleep was upon me, and with it the obstinacy which sleep brings as outrider. |
| Octavio Paz | Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz |
| Oded Fehr | I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
Oded Fehr |
| often | Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes
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| Oliver Franks | A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.
Oliver Franks |
| Oliver North | Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
Oliver North |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Olivier Martinez | If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
Olivier Martinez |
| opportunity | Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
Erykah Badu
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| Oriana Fallaci | Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
Oriana Fallaci |
| Ornette Coleman | It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman |
| Oscar Wilde | I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde |
| Oscar Wilde | Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde |
| Oswald Chambers | A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers |
