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Quotes by Irish Authors
"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
"The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do."
"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
"I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together."
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
"We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence."
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."
"You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there."
"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."
"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
"I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker."
"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
"So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold."
"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."
"It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them."
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
"You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading."
"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."
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