Conor Quotes

And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet. ~ Conor Oberst

Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision ~ Conor McGregor

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go. ~ Conor McGregor

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year! ~ Conor Maynard

Glutes are power. ~ Conor McGregor

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain ~ Conor Oberst

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world. ~ Conor Oberst

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it. ~ Conor Oberst

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time. ~ Conor Maynard

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it. ~ Conor Oberst

If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space. ~ Conor Oberst

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it. ~ Conor Maynard

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie. ~ Conor Oberst

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude. ~ Conor McGregor

I don't work, I live ... I don't have a job, I just have a life. ~ Conor McGregor

She noticed then that Conor was watching her.
'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.
'In a while. Why don't you go down and check if it's warm enough?'
'And if it's not warm enough?'
'We'll still go in. But at least we'll know. ~ Colm Toibin

Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people. ~ Conor Oberst

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure. ~ Conor McGregor

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. ~ Conor Oberst

I don't really care. The whole division can hate me. The whole roster can hate me. The whole of America can hate me. I only need one American to love me. And that's Mr. Benjamin Franklin. As long as he loves me, I am good. ~ Conor McGregor

You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between. ~ Conor McGregor

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. ~ Conor Oberst

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York. ~ Conor Oberst

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living ~ Conor Oberst

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music. ~ Conor McPherson

People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling. ~ Conor McGregor

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me. ~ Conor Oberst

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music. ~ Conor Oberst

One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble. ~ Conor McGregor

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken. ~ Conor Cruise O'Brien

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions. ~ Conor Oberst

And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all. Conor ~ Patrick Ness

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief. ~ Conor McGregor

("I knew it," Conor grumbled. "These kinds of stories always have stupid princes falling in love." He started walking back to the house. "I thought this was going to be good.")
(With one swift movement, the monster grabbed Conor's ankles in a long, strong hand and flipped him upside down, holding him in mid-air so his T-shirt rucked up and his heartbeat thudded in his head.)
(As I was saying, said the monster.) ~ Patrick Ness

I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it. ~ Conor Maynard

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. ~ Conor Oberst

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep. ~ Conor McGregor

Speed is the essence of war. ~ Conor McGregor

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them. ~ Conor Cruise O'Brien

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable. ~ Conor McGregor

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it. ~ Conor Oberst

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.' ~ Conor Oberst

It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success. ~ Conor McGregor

Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds. ~ Conor Oberst

The sound of loneliness makes me happier. ~ Conor Oberst

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening. ~ Conor McPherson

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused. ~ Conor McGregor

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is. ~ Conor Oberst

My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July. ~ Conor McGregor

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!"
The monster looked at him quizzically. "How strange", it said. "The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise.
"You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked. ~ Patrick Ness

It seemed to him that half the fun of a library was stumbling on treasures by chance...
Conor, in The Library at the Edge of the World ~ Felicity Hayes-McCoy

It's good to make your brain work more than your body. ~ Conor McGregor

And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. ~ Patrick Ness

In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way. ~ Conor Oberst

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way. ~ Conor Maynard

One thing I believe that's a key to success is celebrate your surroundings. ~ Conor McGregor

Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it.
But now I do. ~ Helen Dunmore

I move in many ways. I can adapt and overcome to any situation. ~ Conor McGregor

Here is the hardest hit of all, O'Malley," Harry said. "Here is the very worst thing I can do to you."
He held out his hand, as if asking for a handshake.
He was asking for a handshake.
Conor responded almost automatically, putting out his own hand and shaking Harry's before he even thought about what he was doing. They shook hands like two businessmen at the end of a meeting.
"Goodbye, O'Malley," Harry said, looking into Conor's eyes. "I no longer see you. ~ Patrick Ness

When the monster struck a blow, Conor felt the sting of it in his own fist. When the monster held Harry's arm behind his back, Conor had felt Harry's muscles resisting.
Resisting, but not winning.
Because how could a boy beat a monster? ~ Patrick Ness

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that. ~ Conor Oberst

I am easily inspired by measurable progress... ~ Conor Grennan

So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love ... ~ Conor Oberst

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever. ~ Conor Oberst

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme. ~ Conor Oberst

I wouldn't mind being a bit taller. ~ Conor Maynard

The only thing major labels can really offer is money. ~ Conor Oberst

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think. ~ Conor Oberst

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it. ~ Conor Oberst

You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of. ~ Patrick Ness

Victorious. I feel that is why I did all the training, why I make the sacrifices, that is why I got into the shape I am in. I feel I have won, that's millions more coming my way, I feel great. ~ Conor McGregor

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul. ~ Conor Oberst

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them. ~ Conor Cruise O'Brien

You know how the sea grinds down stones into sand, over years and years and years? Nobody ever sees it, it happens so slowly. And then at last the sand is so fine you can sift it in your fingers. Losing Dad is like being worn away by a force that's so powerful nothing could resist it. We are like stones, being changed into something completely different.
If you looked casually at me and Mum and Conor now, you might think we were the same people as we were a year ago, except that we're a year older. But we are not the same people. We've changed where no one can see it, inside our minds and our feelings. I didn't want us to change, but I can't stop it. ~ Helen Dunmore

There's nothing that the road cannot heal ~ Conor Oberst

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me. ~ Conor McGregor

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together. ~ Conor Oberst

I work hard and fight easy. ~ Conor McGregor

Smart work pays best. Trust it. ~ Conor McGregor

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message. ~ Conor Oberst

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy. ~ Conor McPherson

Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire. ~ Conor Oberst

Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix. ~ Conor Oberst

I don't worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game. ~ Conor McGregor

Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan ~ Garth Nix

Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist. ~ Conor Maynard

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. ~ Conor Oberst

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles. ~ Conor Oberst

I plot my ascent daily. ~ Conor McGregor

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. ~ Conor Oberst

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope. ~ Conor Oberst

being a hero is not all its cracked up to be." - Conor Kelly ~ Ali Isaac

I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate. ~ Conor McGregor

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. ~ Conor Oberst

What can I say? I'm a talker. ~ Conor McGregor

Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself ... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. ~ Conor McGregor

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man. ~ Conor McGregor

You must speak the truth and you must speak it now, Conor O'Malley. Say it. You must.
Conor shook his head again, his mouth clamped shut tight, but he could feel a burning in his chest, like a fire someone had lit there, a miniature sun, blazing away and burning him from the inside.
"It'll kill me if I do," he gasped.
It will kill you if you do not, the monster said. You must say it. ~ Patrick Ness

For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance. ~ Katherine McIntyre

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now.
But he was further away than ever. ~ Patrick Ness