Dara O Briain Quotes

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

Dara O Briain

• Comedy
• Bites

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • You
  • Mad

• I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Long
  • Real
  • Home

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Works
  • Move
  • Surrender

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Stupid

• The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Learning
  • Mom

• Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Trust

• There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Value

• So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether it's working to nail down our renewables, whether it's ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Great
  • Energy

• On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Comedy

• I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Summer
  • Hockey

• I knew what it was like growing up in a world where I never saw myself in anything.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • Simple
  • Waiting
  • Funeral

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

  

  Dara O Briain
  • Comedy
  • Bites