Patrick O'Brian Quotes

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FriendshipReasonUncommonLiking

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Jim Crace

MoreWhereBackgroundComeBooks

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

John C. Reilly

MusicListeningAmericanDoingHouse

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

Johann Lamont

GreatImportantMoreStudentsSet

Las Vegas is amazing because of the clientele you have here. People come from all over the world; it really is a melting pot.

Joel Robuchon

PeopleAmazingWorldVegasYouOver

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

John Dos Passos

MenSupportMindChaosStrongLong

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

John Drinkwater

BestExperiencePerfectWayPossible

It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.

Andris Nelsons

GodBelieveThinkDreamSometimes

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

Amy Grant

WomanKnowMy OwnHumanSingerOwn

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

DreamsSonChildMindHorseWishes

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.

Sonia Sotomayor

TimeDoingPlanLongYouCareer

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Shunryu Suzuki

MindThinkYouBodyWrongYour Body

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

Mary Gaitskill

EnvironmentYouTrueWriteYourHow

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