Gay Byrne Quotes

Happiness is a house without a telephone.

Gay Byrne

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Actor
  • First
  • Trained

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Love
  • American
  • Christmas

• I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Career
  • Soldier
  • Been

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
  • Habits

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Realize

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Earth

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Most
  • Rather
  • Reporters

• There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Believe
  • First
  • Old

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.

  

  Maluma
  • Work
  • Honor
  • Musicians

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

  

  William Glasser
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Focus

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• Happiness is a house without a telephone.

  

  Gay Byrne
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Telephone