Eugene O'Neill Quotes

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

Eugene O'Neill

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Just
  • Going

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Live
  • House
  • Man

• It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Believe
  • Difficult
  • Point

• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Know
  • Me
  • Tell

• We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Any
  • Reggae
  • Websites

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Only God singing this song of you... makes true light... somehow possible.

  

  Aberjhani
  • God
  • True
  • Song

• Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men

• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear
  • Violence

• The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

  

  John Burnside
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • City

• Love is the HeavenToward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures - you and IAre rushing by the straight path of action right,Or winding laboriously on error’s path,All to reach haven there at last.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Action
  • Path

• The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Present
  • Strange
  • Witness