Patrick O'Brian Quotes

You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 12, 1914 - January 2, 2000

Topics

LifeYourselfHappyBe HappyFriends

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

Jennifer Lopez

LoveDayBedWholeIdeaLover

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

John McCain

WinJustWarsCountriesArmies

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Robert Lanza

TimeWordsAnimalSpacePerception

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Jeff Cooper

ChangeYouCitizenUpPickRifle

I can relate to a guy who stays home and does it for his family and friends.

Stefon Diggs

FamilyHomeFriendsI CanGuyWho

The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

PeopleThinkingYearsWithoutSoviet

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

Travis Barker

MyselfDayEvery DayHospitalEat

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

FurnitureEverythingHeavyEnglish

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Dree Hemingway

MyselfHappyPeopleAmazingThink

I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Horowitz, and Art Tatum. Those are the pianists I really enjoy and admire.

Aretha Franklin

ArtListeningAppreciateEnjoyUp

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Wole Soyinka

MorningWritingStartNeverUpGet

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

William Masters

WorkLivingBedroomRoomLiving Room

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