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Patrick O'Brian Quotes

The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Curiosity Questions You First

I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated.

Joel Madden

Want Leaving Single See Leave

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

Andrea Barrett

History People Data Trying Living

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

Inspirational Heart Soul Yourself Go

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

John Major

Truth People Me Eye Tell Did

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Michael Eric Dyson

Wisdom People Better American Learn

I'm one of the best all-around small forwards in the world.

Metta World Peace

Best World Small All-Around Forwards

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

Stewart Brand

Best Energy American Electricity Far

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

Mike Love

Meditation Dead Without

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

Jason Blum

Great Myself Kind Group Horror Nuts

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Mistake People Design Trying Fools

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

David Soul

Knowledge Responsibility Woman Child

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Christopher Hitchens

Time People You Ask Always Sure