Sean O'Casey Quotes

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Sean O'Casey

• Age
• Desire
• Calm
• Failing
• Serenity
• Drank

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• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Control
  • Marketing
  • Measure

• I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• Shopping turns me off.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Me
  • Shopping
  • Off

• We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Audience

• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Dead
  • Republican
  • Voting

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Washington
  • Endless
  • Clearly

• I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
  • Meet
  • Ever

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Desire

• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  

  Bryan Singer
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Age
  • Desire
  • Calm