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Quotes by Irish Authors
"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
"You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I...''Don't?''Exactly,' he said happily."
"While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought."
"So what does that actually mean?''To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.''Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said.'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion."
"I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that."
"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
"One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!"
"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life."
"You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?"
"I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days."
"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."
"The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words."
"I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland."
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
"Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end."
"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book."
"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
"The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think."
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."
"I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance."
"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."
"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"
"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
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