Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

Brian O'Driscoll

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• On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Discovery
  • June

• Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Photograph
  • Well
  • Paintings

• You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Best
  • Do Your Best

• If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Honor

• Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Live
  • Women
  • Judge

• One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

  

  Jeffrey Bell
  • Character
  • High
  • Fall

• Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

  

  Allison Janney

• I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

  

  Dean Geyer
  • Practice
  • Training

• Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • People

• I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

  

  John Malkovich

• To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

  

  Kirsten Green
  • Good

• Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • World
  • Long
  • Song

• An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

  

  John Rawls

• It seemed that if someone was lost in Copenhagen then the citizens regarded it as their duty to offer help.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Help
  • Lost

• Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

  

  George Eliot
  • Work
  • Great
  • May

• I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Today

• When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Mother
  • Me
  • See

• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Freedom
  • Taken
  • Given

• When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Scotland
  • Harmonious
  • North

• The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • World
  • Kind
  • Joy

• I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Scotland
  • Nick de Luca