Owen R. O'Neill Quotes & Sayings

Can I assume the excrement has encountered the turbine? — Owen R. O'Neill

Commander Huron, I should like to inquire after one of your flight officers."

"Would that be Ensign Kennakris, ma'am?"

"Do you always answer the question like that?"

"Well, ma'am, she does have a way of getting people's attention."

"I've been told she scares the living shit out of people."

"That's one of the ways she gets their attention. — Owen R. O'Neill

You ordered an immediate withdrawal, sir. Am I to understand I have the liberty to countermand your orders in combat? — Owen R. O'Neill

She was not unacquainted with these sudden shocking illuminations, but they were among those experiences which are ever-new - like love, orgasms, or barking your shin. You never really got used to them.

This one wasn't the light that cleaves the darkness, the one bright shining truth that slashes through the murk and banishes all doubt, the divine radiance that heals all wounds before plodding Father Time gets his boots on. She had no faith in those counterfeit notions, though it wasn't the thing itself that was false. It was the yearning for it - the yearning that must cleave to something (anything) because it was bright, not because it was true; that confused letting go with running away; that believed healing was the mere dead absence of pain. — Owen R. O'Neill

She could have kissed him. She would have kissed him, except that she never could have made it mean enough. — Owen R. O'Neill