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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
"But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
"As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
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