C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

Pre-treating is a really important step for stain removal. It's best to treat stains right away, so blot fresh stains with a paper towel or a white rag.

I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Logic is what the devil likes most.

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

I had never seen a real live dead person.

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.