Sullivan Quotes

#1. As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer.
"There," Hadrian told Royce, "we've got Maribor on our side. Now you can relax."
"Actually," Myron said sheepishly, "I was praying for the horses. But I will pray for you as well," he added hastily.

Michael J. Sullivan

#2. Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#3. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.

David Wong

#4. Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

Louis Sullivan

#5. If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Jazmine Sullivan

#6. After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

Preston Sturges

#7. If Marcus hadn't already faced the fact that he was head over heels in love with Nicola, he would have fallen right then ... along with five thousand other people in the sold-out concert hall in San Francisco.

Bella Andre

#8. Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Andrew Sullivan

#9. Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

Fred Allen

#10. Jake Sullivan: FDR can go to hell. I'm a man. Not a type, not a number, and sure as hell not something that can be summed up as a logo to wear on my sleeve. A man. And I ain't registering nothing.

Larry Correia

#11. ...it was hard sharing the person you loved with a stranger.

Sarah Sullivan

#12. These newspaper reporters ... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times ... have got a license to lie.

Edward Bennett Williams

#13. The two of them just sort of clicked, like old friends who'd just met. Friends-at-first-sight, if there was such a thing.

Michael J. Sullivan

#14. Faith is a strange creature," Schuster said. "Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies away, sometimes for years, only to return again, stronger than ever.

Mark T. Sullivan

#15. The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#16. The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

#17. The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

#18. On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Robert M. Hutchins

#19. (Hadrian Blackwater while poisoned) Gill the fish ... rest is best ... time is now ... it feels so good to ...

Michael J. Sullivan

#20. But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

Dinah Sheridan

#21. I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

Andrew Sullivan

#22. [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

Andrew Sullivan

#23. For a pretentious Master vampire, Darth Sullivan was pretty dreamy.

Chloe Neill

#24. You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.

Faith Sullivan

#25. Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Louis Sullivan

#26. I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

Andrew Sullivan

#27. Just another game he played in a world where heroes were legends and honor was a myth.

Michael J. Sullivan

#28. Any chance he's turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?"
"About as likely as me doing it."
Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. "I put him at the top of the list.

Michael J. Sullivan

#29. Well, Chrissy, I'm afraid your grandmother's Irish Alzheimer's has gotten quite advanced - she's forgotten everything but her grudges.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#30. A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Anne Sullivan

#31. You look concerned."
"Just that if you've started another war, I'd like a heads-up is all."
"The level of confidence you have in my diplomatic skills is overwhelming."
"What diplomatic skills?

Michael J. Sullivan

#32. Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

Anne Sullivan Macy

#33. Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

Faith Sullivan

#34. Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

Dan Fogelberg

#35. I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation. - Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

Chuck Klosterman

#36. I am, apparently, Darth Sullivan," he said, lifting a corner of bread to stuff the tomato back in. "I understand that building things, Death Stars or otherwise, isn't my particular strength.

Chloe Neill

#37. If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

Faith Sullivan

#38. At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#39. Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick - then it's personal. The bad guy isn't just the "bad guy" anymore, he's the BAD GUY!

Michael J. Sullivan

#40. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Anne Sullivan

#41. We can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us, on the inside of us looking out. The past should not be allowed to evaporate but should exist only in memories.

Sean Sullivan

#42. They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.

Sarah Sullivan

#43. Would you put it past Darth Sullivan to figure out a way to haunt you postmortem? He's probably holding staff meetings in the afterworld. Offering up performance evaluations. Issuing dictates.

Chloe Neill

#44. She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.

Patricia O'Sullivan

#45. Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

Nicole Sullivan

#46. People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.

Dan Sullivan

#47. Timing was everything when it came to being a woman - the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#48. The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

Andrew Sullivan

#49. I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Anne Sullivan

#50. I just want to live for the moment. Tomorrow's not important, next month is not important, what's happened in the past is not important. That is my journey.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#51. Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

Dan Sullivan

#52. I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

Andrew Sullivan

#53. More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss

Michael J. Sullivan

#54. Lloyd cut his eyes at Dior's dad and made a mental note to kill him good and slow, like maybe beat his ass with a hammer, cut his shriveled up balls off. Both

Leo Sullivan

#55. Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

Brendan Sullivan

#56. I'll do whatever it takes to get you back in my life.

Faith Sullivan

#57. Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

Maureen O'Sullivan

#58. You can't keep everyone alive.

Barry O'Sullivan

#59. She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#60. You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.

Faith Sullivan

#61. Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Anne Sullivan

#62. Royce stared at him a second. "What?"

"You heard me-you hear every stupid thing anyone ever says. That's the most annoying thing about you. Well, not the most -it's actually really hard to order them. The list is so ridiculously long.

Michael J. Sullivan

#63. Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.

David McMullen-Sullivan

#64. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Paul Graham

#65. It's not easy to subdue a person bigger than you and not hurt him in the process."
"Well, I think I found your problem, then. Why don't we try hurting him?

Michael J. Sullivan

#66. Their jobs were almost too clean for Royce's taste.

Michael J. Sullivan

#67. It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

#68. Evening, lads." The redhead curled her fingers around the back of Sullivan's neck and pulled his head in for a quick kiss. "Hey, baby, I missed you." It took a few head-scratching seconds to realize that he was looking at Isabel Roma.

Elle Kennedy

#69. power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart. The

Mark T. Sullivan

#70. Sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can't swim.

Michael J. Sullivan

#71. Black Diamond?" Hadrian asked. "Is that the city patrol?"

Albert chuckled, and Royce shook his head, looking at Hadrian as if he had dropped his pants in public.

Michael J. Sullivan

#72. The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative ... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

Jazmine Sullivan

#73. I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you.

Faith Sullivan

#74. It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

Eddie O'Sullivan

#75. There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#76. Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

Helen Keller

#77. Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.

Michael J. Sullivan

#78. There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

Nicole Sullivan

#79. Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

Jim Sullivan

#80. Beyond those was a stretch of sand and miles of dark blue sea. You couldn't make out a thing on the other side. As a little girl, Maggie believed that the world dropped off out there, that if you swam far enough you might fall into a starry sky.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#81. If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#82. The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -and may well mount a fifth column.

Andrew Sullivan

#83. I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.

Sullivan Stapleton

#84. [On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

Moms Mabley

#85. Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#86. I'm loading a dump truck full of mulch for a landscaping job when my cell phone rings. It's hot day and I wipe the sweat off my brow while removing one of my work gloves. It's hard labor, no question,

Faith Sullivan

#87. Maybe you're forgetting who saved your life," Ringer said.
"Oh, kiss my ass.

Rick Yancey

#88. Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

#89. I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.

Faith Sullivan

#90. Where are you from, Hadrian?" "Hintindar originally - a little village south of here in Rhenydd." "Originally? What's that supposed to mean? You got yourself born someplace else recently?

Michael J. Sullivan

#91. That's what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don't believe anymore

Michael J. Sullivan

#92. She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#93. I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.

Michael J. Sullivan

#94. But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the strongest element of desire is longing. It's in the work. Desider-, sidus: from the stars. The longing that reaches beyond space and time.

Rosemary Sullivan

#95. I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#96. It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

Andrew Sullivan

#97. Pino was seized by something much more compelling and primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a perfect instrument of love.

Mark T. Sullivan

#98. I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#99. We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Anne Sullivan

#100. I think Luc was right," he added when they were out of earshot. "I can hardly take you out anymore." "I just took out a vamp twice my weight while wearing a cocktail dress and three-inch heels. I think I deserve some credit for that.

Chloe Neill