Obe Quotes & Sayings

I hate travelling and explorers — Claude Levi-Strauss

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. — Gina McKnight

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station. — Michael Winner

I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest. — Ken Loach

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws. — Henri Poincare

Each of us at our root is consciousness, and in the highest of the spiritual realms life and form become light. I experienced this in an OBE in which I went to the outer ring of the source of creation. — Belsebuub

Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing. — Jennifer Crusie

the very air I breathed in these empty, chilly halls ...seemed vaguely impregnated with a more volatile essence, the kind of which it is expressively said that they exist in the state of scents, traces which escape attention once they have roused it, and in whose subtle distillation time--a time which instead of devouring itself seemed here to decant and thicken itself like the lees of old wine, with that almost spiritual succulence by which certain noble vintages make the years themselves explode on the tongue--counted for almost everything. — Julien Gracq

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama. — Joan Collins

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic. — Jon Stewart

The very last thing the Queen needs to do before retirement is to dub Shaun Ryder an OBE. It's decided. — M.C. O'Neill

I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality. — Aspen Matis

There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed. — John Le Carre

My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead. — Brian Clough

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes. — Harvey Pekar

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do. — John Larroquette

It's a great honor ... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously ... I'm very honored to be given this honor.
(upon receiving the OBE) — David Beckham