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Quotes by Irish Authors
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
"Plans are invitation to disappointment."
"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done."
"People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street."
"In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."
"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
"It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated."
"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."
"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
"This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice."
"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."
"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"
"He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."
"I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine."
"Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up."
"Hey, bodyguard. You better get down to the gymnasium. This jumbo pixie guy is killing your sister.' 'Really?' said Butler, unconvinced. 'Really. Juliet just does not seem to be herself. She can't put two moves together. It's pathetic, really. Everybody is betting against her.' 'I see,' said Butler, straightening. Mulch held the door. 'It's going to make things really interesting when you show up to help.' Butler grinned. 'I'm not coming to help. I just want to be there when she stops faking.' 'Ah,' said Mulch, comprehension dawning on his face. 'So I should switch my bet to Juliet?' 'You certainly should' said Butler."
"But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc."
"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."
"For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it."
"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."
"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."
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