Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Brian O'Driscoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 21, 1979

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If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.

Joe Cocker

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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

Jessye Norman

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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

John Burroughs

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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

Andy Goldsworthy

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I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

Stuart Appleby

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Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

Simon Toyne

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You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole life - can you imagine what that means for a person?

Roy Jones Jr.

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And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Michael Patrick Jann

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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Demosthenes

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The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

Donald E. Graham

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I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.

Annette Bening

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I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

Aubrey O'Day

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