Brian F. O'Byrne Quotes

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

Brian F. O'Byrne

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• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Ride

• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Liberty

• India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • India
  • Global

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Job
  • Me
  • President

• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Business
  • Pressure

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feel Good

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Weird
  • Internet
  • Someone

• Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Difficult

• Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Church
  • Eating
  • Quit

• Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • For Her

• From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Dark

• Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Journey

• A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Great
  • Children
  • Experience

• Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

  

  Nellie Melba
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Blood

• There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

  

  Brian F. O'Byrne