Flann O'Brien Quotes

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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• With publicity comes humiliation.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Publicity
  • Humiliation

• Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Advice

• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Violence

• When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

  

  Andres Segovia
  • Up
  • Work

• Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  

  Pee Wee Reese
  • School
  • High
  • Training

• Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Why
  • Book
  • House

• Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

  

  Bill Nye
  • People
  • Science

• At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Pain

• I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• 'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that as a fan of both 'The Sopranos' and New Jersey.

  

  Kevin Bleyer
  • Done

• I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.

  

  Andra Day
  • Different
  • Father
  • House

• Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Death

• Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Internet
  • Now
  • Computers

• If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Feels
  • Ifs
  • Outsiders

• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Lost

• We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to be competing with what we are going to be doing, not with where we started.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Customers

• You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Education
  • Brilliant

• A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Operation
  • Tale
  • Performed

• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Labor
  • Master
  • Crumb

• You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Community
  • Understanding
  • Condition

• The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Operation
  • Dusk