Denis Kearney Quotes

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

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• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Woman

• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Power
  • Spiritual
  • Need

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Church
  • Obedience

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Improve
  • Still
  • Lot

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagine

• A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Mystery

• I don't have a strong interest in history.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History
  • Strong
  • Interest

• 'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Always

• Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • Writer
  • Someone

• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Space
  • Confidence
  • Air

• I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Church

• I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Important
  • School
  • Kids

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

  

  John Hume
  • Time
  • Opinion

• Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

  

  Denis Kearney
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy