Sean O'Faolain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
-
What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
-
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
-
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
-
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
-
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
-
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
-
I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
-
I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
-
I love America a lot. I really do.
-
My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
-
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
-
There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
-
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.
-
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
-
Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.
-
Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.
