D. O. Flynn Quotes

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

I love talking about myself.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

I am a very selfish person.

Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.

I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.

I like serving America.

What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

There are Muslims, who are moderate Muslims. And there's more of them than there are radicalized Muslims and are using Islam in its misinterpreted ideology.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

I feel pretty passionate about what's happening to America.

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.

Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.

We have a problem with radical Islamism and I actually think that we could work together with Russia against this enemy. They have a worse problem than America does.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.

I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

I just look at what's going on in the world.

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.