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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
"I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid."
"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."
"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."
"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."
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