Ed Byrne Quotes

Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Friendship

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Writing
  • Patience
  • Boring

• I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Team
  • Reading

• All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Weird

• You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.

  

  Quintilian

• There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • May
  • Wish
  • Single

• There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn. If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Joy
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Career

• With time, I've got more used to grass, and I think my style of game helps.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Time
  • Game
  • Style

• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Women
  • Family
  • Why

• My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kids

• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Humility

• I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • You
  • Will

• For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.

  

  John Hagel III
  • Interesting
  • Technology
  • Innovation

• And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

  

  William Jackson
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Values

• Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.

  

  Ed Byrne
  • Life
  • Right Thing
  • Funnier