Walter O'Brien Quotes

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Ambition

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Beautiful
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Desire

• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Book
  • Period
  • Write

• I'm an all-or-nothing person.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Person

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

• I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • World
  • Determination
  • Gymnastics

• People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

  

  Marie Stopes
  • People
  • Business
  • Truth

• I fell into conversation with Douglas. His is a split personality. À deux he is delightful; clever, funny, observant, drily cynical. But get him anywhere near 'display mode', particularly if there are officials around, and he might as well have a corncob up his arse. Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up
  • High
  • Funny

• We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Lost

• Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Technology

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