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Quotes by Irish Authors
"By thinking of things you could understand them."
"Possession they say is eleven points of the law."
"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it."
"Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."
"Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you."
"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned."
"I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact."
"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
"I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet."
"CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that."
"I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs."
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
"And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast."
"Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time."
"The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into."
"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
"She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation."
"Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good."
"It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep."
"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter."
"Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed."
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."
"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."
"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."
"The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them."
"We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music."
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
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