Sean O'Casey Quotes

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Sean O'Casey

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

  

  Dane Cook
  • True
  • Professional
  • Dreams

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Questions
  • Limit

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Goal
  • Serve
  • Aspiration

• I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reputation
  • Madman
  • Crank

• When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up

• The one that I missed.

  

  Babe Ruth

• Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Fear
  • Insecurity

• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

  

  Ben Jonson

• Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Search

• Cuando creo que la piedra es piedra, que la nube es nube, me hallo es un estado de inconsciencia.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?

  

  Mel Brooks

• If I woke up tomorrow morning and it was just a dream, it would be the best dream I've ever had, and I would be ― I would not be happy to be waking up! laughter

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Dream

• Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Music
  • Different
  • Soul

• Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

  

  Alarmel Valli
  • Dance
  • Wine
  • Performance

• Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Soul
  • Wine
  • Laughter