Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.

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• I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Lyrics
  • Fan
  • Pink Floyd

• When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
  • Prison

• When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Dream

• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

  Ted Knight
  • Black
  • You
  • Guard

• I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Cancer

• When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Walking
  • Yourself

• I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Small

• In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Why
  • Human
  • Cry

• I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Dad
  • Will
  • Vote

• My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Going
  • Wants
  • Guess

• Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Man
  • Exercise
  • Stress

• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Star

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Child
  • Well
  • Still

• Never read any book that is not a year old.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book

• Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Air

• The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Attention

• I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Friends
  • History
  • Father

• I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Wander

• When I was very young, my brother and I, we used to go into charity shops to buy suits. The thing about clothes is that people judge you by what you wear, unfortunately. So when we wore suits, people gave us respect - we were very young, and it made them think we were older.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Respect
  • Brother

• You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

  Dito Montiel
  • Great
  • Money
  • Movie

• The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Religion

• The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson