Brendan Behan Quotes

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

Brendan Behan

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Government
  • Religious

• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • True
  • Thought

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Know
  • Conscious

• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

  

  Mae West
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Loved

• If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Military
  • Look

• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Home
  • City
  • Violence

• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Important
  • Funny

• I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Good
  • Important
  • Healthy

• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Me
  • Working
  • Started

• I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Nature
  • You
  • Shy

• The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Alone
  • Curiosity

• The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Freedom

• Love's whole world on us doth wheel.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • World

• Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Relationship

• It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • People
  • Weird

• You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Customer experience

• I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Emotion
  • Characters
  • Work Hard

• I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

  

  Ang Lee
  • World
  • Good
  • Kids

• My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Future
  • Career
  • Dad

• I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

  

  Brendan Behan