Brian F. O'Byrne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  • You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  • Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

  • Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.

  • I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.

  • I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  • All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the middle.

  • Happiness is speechless.

  • I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless.

  • I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.