Sean O'Casey Quotes

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

Sean O'Casey

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• To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Real
  • Play
  • Film

• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Honor

• During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Great
  • Business
  • Football

• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Random

• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Honor
  • Writer

• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Light
  • Honor

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Event

• I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Myself
  • Humor
  • Train

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

  

  Beck
  • Love
  • Humor
  • Just

• If it gets laughs, it's funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Laughs

• The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Want
  • Honor

• Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Humor

• he said, 'Madam-may I presume?'-and stopped, offering to take my hand. I...could scarce forbear laughing. 'Allow me, Madam,' continuing he, affectedly breaking off every half moment, 'the honour and happiness...the happiness and honor...'

  

  Frances Burney
  • May
  • Hand
  • Honor

• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Honor
  • Selfishness
  • Craving

• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine-in fact one shudders to imagine-a child of today reading and enjoying it.

  

  Martin Gardner
  • Children
  • Today
  • Reading

• It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Family
  • Fight
  • Stole

• Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Honor
  • Humor
  • Sanity