Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

Brian O'Driscoll

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• Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Running
  • Space
  • Down

• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Together

• Ethel was calm but she felt excited inside. Bernard has a big house said Mr S. gazing at Ethel he is inclined to be rich.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • She
  • House
  • Calm

• Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plant?Anyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant.But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • High
  • Tree
  • Sky

• I feel a special connection to Haiti and the Haitian people.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Connection

• I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Black

• As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • People
  • Women
  • Simple

• I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Up

• I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

  

  James Frey
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • High
  • Comedy
  • Wind

• I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • House

• I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

  

  Charlie Bewley
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Rugby

• There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • Movie
  • Rock
  • Summer

• We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Playing
  • Australia
  • Rugby

• I was beginning to hope someone would attack me.9

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Hope
  • Beginning

• It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Real
  • Fool

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

  

  Alaa Al Aswany
  • Different
  • Afraid
  • Racist

• Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • God
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Kind
  • Feels

• [a story he told fans each year at the Delaware County (OH) Fair Little Brown Jug Stakes for pacers, which as a devoted harness-racing fan he attended annually] I grew up in the city not far from a burlesque theater and my father cautioned me not to go there because I might see something I shouldn't see. So, of course, when I got old enough I went right in, and sure enough I saw something I shouldn't - my father!

  

  Charles Coburn
  • Father
  • See
  • Should Not

• I still get a great buzz from rugby.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Rugby
  • Buzz