Flann O'Brien Quotes
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
Flann O'Brien
Quotes to Explore
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
Caprice Bourret
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
Raekwon
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
Nancy Kress
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
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I’m really enjoying my rugby at Glasgow, the club is in a great place, we’ve been pretty successful over the last two or three years, and we’ve got a great squad and a great coaching team.
George Horne
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For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
Terry Eagleton
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If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
Gaby Hoffmann
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A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
Flann O'Brien
