Kate O'Brien Quotes

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

Kate O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 3, 1897 - August 13, 1974

Topics

TeamStandFirstNakedSomebody

My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.

Jessica Chastain

LifeMenSeedShipAlienActor

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

Rose McGowan

WorkPeopleYouGoOutReturn

Each album always has its own sound.

Luis Fonsi

SoundAlwaysOwnAlbumEach

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jon Favreau

PeopleYouLookBackMoviesHeroes

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Douglas Coupland

TimeArtSpaceWritingVisualAbout

We are moving closer to a future where quantified lives will become the norm.

Denise Morrison

FutureMovingWillBecomeWhere

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

GreatPeopleYouLookBackEveryone

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.

Conor McGregor

SleepPeopleFactsUnconsciousPut

Instead of more talk about salmon and high-speed rails, more criticism of the Supreme Court or more praise for the Soviet's Sputnik mission - President Obama should use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people the truth about the fundamental financial challenges our country faces.

Tim Griffin

TruthPeopleChallengesCriticism

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

Glenda Jackson

CareGreedSelfishnessVirtueVice

On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.

Eric Holder

FamilyFatherSonTimeMyselfMe

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

Eric Brown

WorkCreativeWritingSeeingLiving

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