"As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor." — Sinead O'Connor, Irish singer, born December 8, 1966
"I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars." — Sinead O'Conner, Irish singer, born December 8, 1966
"Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on." — Sinead O'Conner, Irish singer, born December 8, 1966
"You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea." — Sinead O'Conner, Irish singer, born December 8, 1966
"I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom." — Sinead O'Connor, Irish singer, born December 8, 1966
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty." — Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist, died March 6, 1986
"Dearest — my body is simply crazy with wanting you — If you don’t come tomorrow — I don’t see how I can wait for you — I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours — the kisses — the hotness." — Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist, born November 15, 1887, from love letters to Alfred Stieglitz
"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace." — Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, born October 16, 1888
"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue." — Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, born October 16, 1888
"God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something." — Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, born October 16, 1888
"Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on--in quest of the secret which is hidden over there--beyond the horizon?" — Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, died November 27, 1953
"I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script." — Peter O’Toole, Irish actor, born August 2, 1932
"Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world." — Peter O’Toole, Irish actor, born August 2, 1932