Neely O'hara Quotes & Sayings

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before. — Barbara Neely

Neely grumbled. 'They [Indians] are a murdering lot of savages, and no mention of them in the Bible.'
'What has that to do with it?' John Sampson asked.
'If there's no mention of them,' Neely said, 'they are animals, not men.'
'I don't recall any mention of the English, either,' I said mildly.
He gave me a mean look, then changed the subject. — Louis L'Amour

Maybe his stuff was so good it made her think she could fly! — Barbara Neely

Love and sex, honey. Either one can make you do the damndest things. The two combined will make you a sure 'nough fool. — Barbara Neely

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview. — Barbara Neely

I believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and His Mother, Holy Mary. Jesus was a living baby once. He went bare-footed like we do in the summer. I saw a picture where He was a boy and had no shoes on. And when He was a man, He went fishing, like papa did once. And they could hurt Him, too, like they couldn't hurt God. Jesus wouldn't go around punishing people. He knew about people. So I will always believe in Jesus Chirst.'
They made the sign of the cross as Catholics do when mentioning Jesus' name. Then she put her hand on Neely's knee and spoke in a whisper.
'Neely, I wouldn't tell anybody but you, but I don't believe in God anymore.'
'I want to go home,' said Neely. He was shivering. — Betty Smith

I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting. — Justine Larbalestier

Blanche stared at Emmeline's door for a few moments, bristling with the desire to knock and trying to conquer her natural inclination to defy the voice of authority. It was one of the reasons she had not lasted in the waitressing, telephone sales, clerking, and typing jobs she'd tried over the years. — Barbara Neely

I love to run my fingers o'er the keys, the ivories. — Blake Neely

I met Mrs. Neely at the door and I swear to you she took one look at my glossy lips and bare knees and the woman just knew. Moms are creepy like that sometimes. — Amber L. Johnson

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be. — Barbara Neely

Splatoon Weapon Level Required Price Sub Weapon Special Weapon Single Player Scroll Splattershot Jr. 1 N/A Splat Bomb Bubbler N/A Slattershot 2 500 Burst Bomb Bomb Rush N/A Custom Splattershot Jr. 2 800 Disruptor Echolocator Octostomp Scroll Splat Roller 3 1,000 Suction Bomb Killer Wail N/A Splat Charger 3 1,000 Splat Bomb Bomb Rush N/A Tentatek Splattershot 4 2,000 Suction Bomb Inkzooza N/A Kelp Splat Charger 4 2,500 Sprinkler Killer Wail Octonozzle Scroll .52 Gal 5 3,000 Splash Wall Killer Wail N/A Classic Squiffer 6 5,000 Point Sensor Bubbler N/A Krak-On Splat Roller 7 3,000 Squid Beacon Kraken N/A Aerospray MG 7 4,500 Seeker Inkzooza Octowhirl Scroll — Luke Neely

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air. — Barbara Neely

They jealous 'cause you got the night in you. Some people got night in 'em, some got morning, others, like me and your mama, got dusk. But it's only them that's got night can become invisible. People what got night in 'em can step into the dark and poof - disappear! Go any old where they want. Do anything. Ride them stars up there, like as not. — Barbara Neely

Investors know that a major factor to investing success is the ability to go where others will not. That's where an investor will be able to achieve excess returns versus the overall market, if executed properly. However, the concept of contrarianism can be taken to extremes at times. — J. Lukas Neely

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look. — Barbara Neely

Oh my God," Mrs. McIntire screamed. She'd dropped to her knees, the dark sand and water soaking into her jeans. "Neely!"
Mr. McIntire held his wife while she screeched her daughter's name over and over. "She's going to be fine, sweetie," he kept saying.
I really wanted to believe him.
"Is she on the other side?" I paced the shore. I couldn't see anything except a piece of driftwood lying at the water's edge. "I don't see her."
Mr. McIntire didn't answer, only pointed across the rolling water.
A log had washed up on the shore. It looked like maybe the water had rubbed all the bark off and left a naked, saturated trunk behind.
"Tell me where she is." Aggravated, I stared until my eyes blurred with stress. "All I see is a damn log."
"Son," Sheriff Mills said from behind me. "That ain't a log. — K.D. Wood

We're only gonna talk to him," I said for what had to be the hundredth time as I pulled my truck up to the curb. But Neely Kate seemed exceptionally bloodthirsty, and truth be told, I didn't trust her all that much to behave. — Denise Grover Swank

I woke up one morning to discover I had lost my religous faith, as if it were a suitcase left behind in a distant airport. — Neely Tucker

In this town, white politicians and black ministers seemed to go together like tears and tissues. At election time, the pols got religion and came looking for the blessings of black ministers as a way to get black votes without providing the kinds of services to black communities that they at least promised to East Boston and Charlestown and the other mostly white Boston neighborhoods. — Barbara Neely

You can labor to be noticed in hopes to be prospered. Or, you can prosper somebody and they will labor to get you noticed and help you prosper. — Ryan Neely

The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we're in our thirties. — Barbara Neely

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run. — Cam Neely

According to Daddy, that was a time of general lunacy in Neely, but then Daddy has always said there's nothing like a good snowfall to bring out the feeble-mindedness in people. — T. R. Pearson

Neely O'Hara: [drunk in a bar] Who's stoned? I am merely traveling incognito. — Jacqueline Susann

If you don't understand white supremacy/racism ,everything that you do understand will only confuse you.. — Neely Fuller Jr.