Sean O'Casey Quotes
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Quotes to Explore
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.
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I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.
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Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.
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I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.
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As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
