Sean O'Casey Quotes

We couldn't live without comedy.

Sean O'Casey

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• Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Cooking
  • Nothing
  • Eating

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Day
  • Moving
  • Yourself

• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Air
  • Story
  • Tell

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Love
  • Care
  • Him

• True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

  

  Barton Booth
  • True
  • Sun
  • Needle

• I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Myself

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Believe
  • You
  • Find

• As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Best
  • Yourself

• I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Years
  • Model
  • Invest

• Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Will
  • Opportunities
  • Without

• Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Try
  • Just
  • Fake

• I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Danger

• I wear my pajamas. That's the thing I love most about writing. I don't get changed until I actually have to go out of the house. I'll write and take a late lunch or go to a coffee shop when I get where I can't stand the four walls anymore.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Writing
  • House
  • Coffee

• To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Women
  • Running
  • Imagination

• Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Different
  • Acting
  • Existence

• People pay lip service to saving the planet, but they don't – they fail to make the big leap that if you want to save the planet, kill your fucking self. The planet will be saved without you. And what a delightful place it'll be. Welcome. It's a new thing I'm working on, called 'The Comedy of Hate'. Join in.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • Hate
  • Comedy

• The purpose creates the machine.

  

  Arthur Young
  • Purpose

• My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

  

  Anna Held
  • People
  • Funny
  • Dog

• I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • Done

• We couldn't live without comedy.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Comedy