P. O'Brien Quotes

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding.

The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.

Taco Bell is going to start selling nachos and chicken nuggets wrapped in a tortilla. In other words, thank God we're going to keep Obamacare.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

I always know where the scissors are.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.

Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet.

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be back home in front of all of you capitalist pigs.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.