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I am so happy that you saw your epop.
— Patrick O'Brian
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
— Patrick O'Brian
I'm an eternal optimist.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea.
— Patrick O'Brian
How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.
— Patrick O'Brian
Wittles is up' said Killick
— Patrick O'Brian
Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
— Patrick O'Brian
Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.
— Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns
I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...
— Patrick O'Brian
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...
— Patrick O'Brian
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one's demon.
— Patrick O'Brian
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
— Brian O'Driscoll
God,' he thought, 'never let me outlive my wits.
— Patrick O'Brian
Come all you thoughtless young men,a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian
Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.
— Patrick O'Brian
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
— Brian F. O'Byrne
I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
— Patrick O'Brian
Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?
— Brian Tracy
You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack.
— Patrick O'Brian
My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
— Brian O'Driscoll
If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner)
— Brian O'Hare
Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy.
— Patrick O'Brian
Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.
— Patrick O'Brian
I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
— Patrick O'Brian
You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
— Patrick O'Brian
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?
— Patrick O'Brian
Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel.
— Patrick O'Brian
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
— Patrick O'Brian
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
— Patrick O'Brian
The victory is always sweeter ... winning things with friends.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
— Patrick O'Brian
That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
— Patrick O'Brian
I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Lord Nelson's maxim 'Never mind manoeuvres: always go straight at 'em.
— Patrick O'Brian
Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
— Patrick O'Brian
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
— Patrick O'Brian
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
— Patrick O'Brian
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Jack and Stephen were neither of them human until the first pot of coffee was down, hot and strong.
— Patrick O'Brian
My missus knows to leave me alone.
— Brian O'Driscoll
He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number.
— Patrick O'Brian
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
— Patrick O'Brian
Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun.
— Patrick O'Brian
I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?
— Patrick O'Brian
There never was a ship that fought well without she was a happy ship.
— Patrick O'Brian
Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch
— Patrick O'Brian
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
— Brian O'Driscoll
It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
— Patrick O'Brian
Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick. [- Jack]
— Patrick O'Brian
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I'm very much a glass-half-full person.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. — Patrick O'Brian
If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
— Brian O'Driscoll
In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
— Patrick O'Brian
NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.
— Conan O'Brien
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
— Patrick O'Brian
It must be a weary life, being in a permanent state of rage or at least at half-cock.
— Patrick O'Brian
I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
— Brian O'Driscoll
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...
— Patrick O'Brian
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
— Patrick O'Brian
A virtuous esculent!
— Patrick O'Brian
She is remarkably dry,' he said to Stephen who, preferring to die in the open, had crept up on deck,
— Patrick O'Brian
was an officer holding out his sword,
— Patrick O'Brian
I don't really want to be the centre of attention.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The mind of a man is often thrown off its track by what women possess between their legsThe Halloween Orgy Massacre — Jeff O'Brian
He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.
— Patrick O'Brian
Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;
— Patrick O'Brian
Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
— Patrick O'Brian
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
— Patrick O'Brian
I've never bought a sports car.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.
— Patrick O'Brian
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
— Brian O'Driscoll
When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry.
— Patrick O'Brian
It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You
— Patrick O'Brian
A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
— Brian F. O'Byrne
Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and
— Patrick O'Brian
We have contact with alien cultures.
— Brian O'Leary
