Quotes About O'Neill

With a play, when the curtain goes up and people are in garbage cans, I know I may admire the idea cerebrally, but it won't mean as much to me. I've seen Beckett, along with many lesser avant-gardists, and many contemporary plays, and I can say yes, that's clever and deep but I don't really care. But when I watch Chekhov or O'Neill--where it's men and women in human, classic crises--that I like.

went to see Elmer O'Neill at his office in a converted gas station in Arlington. The gas pumps were gone, but the low concrete pedestal on which they'd once sat was still there. "I see what you mean about low overhead," I said when I went in. "Overhead any lower," Elmer said, "and I couldn't stand up straight.

it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!

DONKEYMAN: S'pose there's a gel mixed up in it someplace, ain't there? SMITTY: What makes you think so? DONKEYMAN: Always is when a man lets music bother 'im. ["The Moon of the Caribees"]

Paul O'Neill, Bush's first secretary of the treasury, revealed that at the very first National Security Council meeting the subject of attacking Iraq was on the agenda for discussion. O'Neill lasted in the administration until December of 2002 when he was fired for disagreeing with Bush on the Iraq War and for expressing the danger of the large deficits.

The complete document—" Letter from Farside"—is explosive, incoherent, and riddled with factual inaccuracies and highly questionable readings of history. It's also 3,600 pages long.

O'Donnell later told a friend, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, that he had been pressured by the FBI not to say what he firmly believed, that gunfire had come from in front of the motorcade.

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.

At night the monsters under the beds begged him to come make love to them.

I guess it was worth having your self-esteem destroyed if there was a free toy involved.

Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at.

It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder.

Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth, I said and stormed inside. Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door, Hugo called after me.

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.

There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.'

Ohio's future is important to me.

In retrospect, the red flags existed every few feet, but nature provides us with a denial mechanism, else we couldn't make it through the days, as Freud teaches us, as Nietzsche teaches us, as O'Neill teaches us, as T. S. Eliot teaches us. Unfortunately, I was never a good student.

Hey—is your play also so pessimistic?" "O'Neill is my strongest influence." "He got his vision from Nietzsche," she said.

Rawls also saw ethical agreement on a certain ideal of citizenship as the basis for determining principles of justice.