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Quotes by Irish Authors
"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something."
"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."
"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system."
"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
"And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
"You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both."
"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."
"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."
"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about."
"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
"I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich."
"I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice."
"We must see our present fight right through to the very end."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
"Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to."
"Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question."
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
"I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend."
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