Donald O'Donovan Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 26 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Donald O'Donovan.
Famous Quotes By Donald O'Donovan
Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy. — Donald O'Donovan
Birth, copulation, death. You come out of one hole and you end up in another one. It's a pretty short trip. — Donald O'Donovan
Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed. — Donald O'Donovan
Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego. — Donald O'Donovan
And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe's Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content. — Donald O'Donovan
I'm back at Lafayette Park after a trip to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, not to look at the books but to rub up against the female bookworms and to catch a buzz on the free herbal tea. — Donald O'Donovan
The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and rickety baby carriages of the rag pickers with soft powdery snow. — Donald O'Donovan
It's been my experience in life that if you step back and simply allow events to take their course, things will usually work out okay. Or they won't. — Donald O'Donovan
Dear God, please make me believe that life has some sort of meaning and purpose. — Donald O'Donovan
I'm nothing more than a talking urinal cake. The world is pissing on me. — Donald O'Donovan
My grandfather was a railroad brakeman, sixty years with the D&H. I'd sit on his lap when I was little, I remember, at the upstairs apartment on Watkins Avenue in Oneonta overlooking the tracks, and we'd look out at the yard together and watch the trains hooking up, and he'd pull his gold watch out of his vest pocket and squint at the dial, a gold pocket watch, and the bulging surface of the watch case was all scritch-scratched, etched with tiny soft lines, hundreds of tiny scratches, interlaced. And then he'd check the yard, my Grandpa, to see if the trains were running on time. In those days there was a rhythm to everything, there was an order to things, but now we're riding a runaway train that's carrying us all away to that final night where nothing is remembered and nothing matters. — Donald O'Donovan
Here comes the train; there goes the pain! — Donald O'Donovan
They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I'd been elected, the projection of their own inner hell. — Donald O'Donovan
I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky. — Donald O'Donovan
We are all refugees, and we have the scar to prove it. — Donald O'Donovan
You came out kicking and screaming, reluctant as hell to leave, and you spent the rest of your life trying to get back in. — Donald O'Donovan
Cops need criminals, doctors need disease, and saints need lepers. — Donald O'Donovan
Nowhere do you see a real, integrated, full-blooded man or woman who shines like a beacon in this sea of disjointedness. — Donald O'Donovan
I was born under that star, the dung-beetle star. — Donald O'Donovan
Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for criminals. — Donald O'Donovan
The enemy never sleeps! — Donald O'Donovan
Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother. — Donald O'Donovan