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Quotes by Irish Authors
"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."
"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
"Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be."
"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."
"The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses."
"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
"When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening."
"Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings."
"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."
"I hold that religion and faith are two different things."
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
"The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies."
"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."
"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
"The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks."
"I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11."
"When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy."
"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."
"Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals."
"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
"The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
"She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male."
"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula."
"Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends."
"Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn't require a solution."
"I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it."
"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."
"But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to sound no not to sound to carry too still for even the lightest leaf to carry the brief way here and not die the sound not die on the brief way the wave not die away."
"I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student."
"Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element."
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little."
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