John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

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• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Offer
  • CSI

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • More

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• I'm not one to put a lot of pressure on myself.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera

• I'd like to be a giant enabler.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to some of the money they spend on equipment, they wouldn't have to turn to a life of crime.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Life
  • Money
  • High

• But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Passion

• Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Doubt
  • Brother
  • Devil