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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"To hell with you all, I DO believe."
"I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers."
"We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme."
"Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive."
"Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home."
"By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme."
"I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk."
"Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken."
"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
"Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything."
"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
"Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state."
"Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions."
"So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'."
"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
"But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people."
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
"A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't."
"They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened."
"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care."
"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."
"Who or what inspires you?'I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself."
"We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged."
"Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries."
"I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did."
"Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense."
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
"The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads."
"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
"Personally, in my home, the district in central New York, the Air National Guard base, not 5 years ago, the commandant came through and said, This is one of the sorriest looking bases I have ever seen."
"In many instances, the words "sell and "influence are completely interchangeable."
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