Sean O'Casey Quotes

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

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• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Consciousness
  • Deny

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Week

• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
  • Taken

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Nature
  • Economic
  • Medicine

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Work
  • Road
  • Puzzle

• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

  

  R. Lee Wrights
  • Want
  • Democracy
  • Rights

• I've gotten to meet Sara Bareilles a couple of times. I'm just a such a massive fan of hers, from her albums to 'Waitress' to everything that she does. To be a fan of somebody and then find out that they have a good heart and are kind is really heartwarming.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Fans
  • Albums
  • Waitress

• I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • People
  • Writing
  • She

• Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Intuition

• When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Hard