Brendan Behan Quotes

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Support
  • Responsibility

• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Home
  • Me

• Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Scared
  • Brothers
  • Egypt

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Popular
  • President
  • While

• And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Believe
  • War
  • I Believe

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Empty
  • Farmer
  • Barn

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

  

  Bob Hope
  • People
  • Lazy

• Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Up
  • Important
  • American

• I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop
  • Believer

• The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • World
  • Important