Terry O'Brien > Quotes

“These memories rose up of themselves, it was not often that of my own will I summoned them. It would begin from some point, some little thing, at times unnoticed, and then by degrees there would rise up a complete picture, some vivid and complete impression. I used to analyze these impressions, give new features to what had happened long ago, and best of all, I used to correct it, correct it continually, that was my great amusement.”
― Terry O'Brien, Selected Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
― Terry O'Brien, The World's 100 Greatest Speeches

“To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“objects(s);”
― Terry O'Brien, Little Red Book of Grammar Made Easy

“Brevity,”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“ABC is the essence of a short story: Accuracy, Brevity, Conciseness”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“The closest point in a comet’s orbit to the Sun is called ‘perihelion’. The most distant point is called ‘aphelion’.”
― Terry O'Brien, Amazing World Facts

“She was not thinking at all. She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“Poets are born; orators are made! The”
― Terry O'Brien, The World's 100 Greatest Speeches

“above. Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“New Delhi”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“Men who are dandies and women who are darlings rule the world, at least they should do so.”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“profession.”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“essence”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“such as some private hotels in Paris have on the ground floor, for fear of thieves, and he is going to make me a similar door as well. I have made myself out a coward, but I do not care about that! September 10. Rouen, Hotel Continental. It is done; it is done—but is He dead? My mind is thoroughly upset by what I have seen. Well then, yesterday, the locksmith having put on the iron shutters and door, I left everything open until midnight, although it was getting cold. Suddenly I felt that He was there, and joy, mad joy took possession of me. I got up softly,”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“He had gone on the Stock Exchange for six months; but what was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears?”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“Habit is for individuals, custom is for a country or society,”
― Terry O'Brien, Little Red Book of Common Errors

“90 per cent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.”
― Terry O'Brien, Amazing World Facts

“An artist’s heart is his head,’ replied Trevor; ‘and besides, our business is to realise the world as we see it, not to reform it as we know it.”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“A story is ‘life in time’; a plot is ‘life in values’.”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“short story: plot, setting, characters and theme. There is, however, a subtle difference between a plot and a story. A story is ‘life in time’; a plot is ‘life in values’. The story cannot diverge from the main plot. It leaves behind a single impression or effect. Great short-story writers have the art of excellence. These writers ‘carve on an inch of”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“(keep to, adhere to) I expect him to abide by his decision to help us.”
― Terry O'Brien, Little Red Book of Phrasal Verbs

“Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“In old days I used to be miserable at seeming ridiculous. Not seeming, but being. I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps, from the hour I was born. Perhaps from the time I was seven years old I knew I was ridiculous.”
― Terry O'Brien, Selected Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“speckly-spickly shadows of the forest, while the Leopard and the Ethiopian”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories

“Great speakers don’t ‘give a speech’ when they give their best speeches, they have a conversation”
― Terry O'Brien, The World's 100 Greatest Speeches

“All of India is under a single time zone.”
― Terry O'Brien, Fun Facts: India

“India,”
― Terry O'Brien, 50 Greatest Short Stories