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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
"Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers."
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible."
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
"There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others."
"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
"You will never change a prospective customer's mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect."
"Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities."
"A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy."
"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
"Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so."
"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."
"Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict."
"The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need."
"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere."
"After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0."
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