Arthur O'Shaughnessy Quotes

For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

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• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Hate
  • Call

• On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Together
  • Serious

• I never met a kid I liked.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Met

• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Music
  • Feelings

• Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Family
  • Love
  • Values

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Peace
  • Become
  • Smoke

• When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mother

• We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Audience

• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Peace
  • Body
  • Emotions

• I don't think we're wasting people in space.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • High
  • Hair

• Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • World
  • Live
  • Age

• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Desire
  • Hero
  • Perception

• For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

  

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy
  • Age
  • Dream
  • Birth