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Quotes by Irish Authors
"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."
"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
"When things get tough, remember this mariner's star. Bring to mind that everything external is designed as a challenge. A test sent to ensure you are actually worthy of acquiring your goal and reward. Recognise them as such and you will always find a way to go through, go round, or ignore them as required."
"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself."
"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
"Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it."
"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."
"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."
"For years and years I have done the work I was born for."
"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."
"Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!"
"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."
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