Brendan Behan Quotes

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Behan

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hand
  • Goal
  • Friendship

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • World
  • Best
  • Honor

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • World
  • Women
  • Want

• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Service
  • Dreams

• I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Person

• As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Will
  • Someone

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Control
  • Collaborate
  • Loyalists

• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Great
  • Children
  • City

• One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Character
  • Taken

• As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Business
  • Free

• I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Reading

• Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • God
  • Men
  • Death

• At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Lost
  • Powerful
  • Deep