Quote by Carroll O'Connor

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as

Summary

This quote suggests that the speaker has encountered difficult or arrogant directors, but they displayed resilience and stood up for themselves in response. Despite facing such individuals, they did not back down and were able to hold their own. It implies that the speaker possesses strength of character and a willingness to confront adversity.

Topics

By Carroll O'Connor

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I would have been about seven years old when the formative y

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, a

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the wor

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's

Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

William James, The Varieties of

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Funny Fame Celebrity Dumbledore

...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty

...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?

Beauty Eye Beholder

It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a w

It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.

Henry David Thoreau

Man Mind Labor Door

The most complex things are the simplest.

The most complex things are the simplest.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its futu

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignoran

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.