John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
-
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
-
We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
-
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
-
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
-
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
-
GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
-
On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
-
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
-
If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
-
I am an artist who works with Lego.
-
As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
-
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
-
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
-
Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
-
On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.
-
I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
-
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
-
One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
-
I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!
-
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
-
That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
-
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
