Top 57 Mark O'brien Quotes
#1. The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
Marco Beltrami
#2. Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.
Stephenie Meyer
#3. Football is all about sentiment; if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United.
Mark O'Brien
#5. Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
Francis Quarles
#6. This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.
Mark O'Connell
#7. The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.
Mark O'Connell
#8. I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.
Mark O'Connell
#9. Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.
Mark Rydell
#10. I'd begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.
Mark O'Connell
#11. People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.
Mark Consuelos
#12. She tops up the silver pot with the hot water, steeping every sixpence's worth of tannin out of those tea leaves floating in the water like bloated ants. Do ants bloat? She has to say she has never seen a bloated ant. The injustice of it.
Mark O'Flynn
#13. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz
#14. I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in
Mark Twain
#15. I'll lick a leper's neck before I take a lung-full o' your stench, Brother Row.
Mark Lawrence
#16. Its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent
Mark O'Connell
#17. The world never stops. No matter how exhausted you feel, it keeps dragging you on and on and there's no rest.
Mark O'Sullivan
#18. This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.
Mark O'Connell
#19. Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.
Holly Black
#20. 3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Anonymous
#21. There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood.
Mark Lawrence
#22. The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.
Mark O'Connell
#23. They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.
Scott O'Connor
#24. But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.
Mark Hopkins
#25. The Hai Rong set out on 9 April and arrived in Vladivostok a week later to a warm welcome by the Chinese community. It was the first time the Chinese government had used ships to evacuate its citizens from a foreign country.
Mark O'Neill
#26. They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car, and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#27. Not forgiving interferes with the effectiveness of your prayer life (Mark 11:25).
Stormie O'martian
#28. Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.
Mark O'Donnell
#29. At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.
Mark Harmon
#30. The moral of the story was to be careful whom you call your best friend because he or she may or may not feel the same way about you.
Mark O'Neal
#31. Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes" (Mark 9:23).
Stormie O'martian
#32. Our faith can grow big enough to move a mountain. Jesus said, "These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons ... they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover" (Mark 16:17-18).
Stormie O'martian
#33. I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.
Mark O'Donnell
#34. Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.
Mark McKinnon
#35. Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.
Mark O'Connell
#36. Readers and authors are both trapped and empowered by the logos
Mark O. Keen
#37. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#38. It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins.
("New York Blues")
Cornell Woolrich
#39. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor orphan! My room will be his quarters hereafter.
Mark Twain
#40. Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality
Mark Knopfler
#41. Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well.
Michael D. O'Brien
#42. Sometimes by simply sharing ourselves we become pillars for other people
Mark O'Connell
#43. Ava realises she has no idea what a mother might think if you took to her child with a machete, irrespective of the moral righteousness of it. Surely as a writer she should have a greater understanding of what goes on in the minds of others. She must try harder.
Mark O'Flynn
#44. The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.
Mark O'Connell
#45. Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?
That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?
That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
John Milton
#46. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare
#47. I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
Mark O'Donnell
#48. Make the best o' things the way you find 'em..
Mark Twain
#49. Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.
Mark O'Connor
#50. I have no doubt that most people who listen to Alison Krauss and say they like bluegrass have never heard real bluegrass played in the traditional manner, and probably don't even know who Bill Monroe is.
Mark O'Connor
#51. O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.
Euripides
#52. Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
Brian O'Driscoll
#53. O the wind is a faun in the spring time
When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
List! hark his lay!
Whist! mark his play!
T-r-r-r-l!
Hear how gay!
Clinton Scollard
#54. Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid.
Penny: So you met my mom?
Mark O'Donnell
#55. Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.
Mark O'Donnell
#56. The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
