Brendan Behan Quotes

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Brendan Behan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 9, 1923 - March 20, 1964

Topics

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'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of the greatest musical theater scenes ever written.

Jessie Mueller

LovedYouWayOutsideAuraGreatest

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.

John Gresham Machen

WorkEnjoyMy OwnOwnPrettySeem

I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.

Maysoon Zayid

WomenVoiceTryingSilentGiveBit

I think we're living in a world where there are no boundaries anymore. There are no borders.

Robert Kraft

WorldThinkLivingBordersWhere

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Ami Bera

HealthMedicalGovernmentI AmCare

There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.

Travis Kalanick

RealityWhereDemandSupplyHarsh

There is no power above people power.

Mohammed Morsi

PowerPeopleAbove

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

WorldFactsThingsTotality

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

Deborah Eisenberg

HonorMagicEarlyFirstPrizeBeen

There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

Christopher A. Sims

PeopleWritingPoliticalKnowMuch

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

Chelsea Peretti

MenBlueTryingBackDownNew

I, as Chrissy, want to do things that mentally, emotionally and physically make me the best that I can be.

Chrissy Metz

BestMeI CanWantThingsMentally

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