Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

Brian O'Driscoll

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Ocean
  • Grateful

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
  • Fast

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • English
  • Learn

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Popular

• Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

  

  August Wilson
  • American
  • America
  • Black

• The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Air
  • Fighter
  • Combat

• I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Couple

• One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Positive
  • Story

• I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

  

  Rumi
  • Great
  • Love
  • Things

• If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Light
  • Positive
  • Things