Ireland Quotes - Page 20

• I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

  James Blunt

  Hero, Ebay, Addiction

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

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• I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ideas, Imperfect, Wells

  JOHN STUART MILL, JOHN M. ROBSON, JACK. STILLINGER (1972). “COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL.”

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• The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hero, Europe, Heaven

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• My background is Protestant so I benefited from the great Bible teaching that was provided there... I did love the more culturally classical things, like Irish music, which I think is some of the most congregational-style music when you think of... 'St. Patrick's Breastplate' (and) 'Danny Boy.' These are traditional Irish melodies. I think being brought up there (Ireland) gave me a sense of melody that is very attuned to congregational singing.

  Keith Getty

  Teaching, Boys, Thinking

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

  Conor McPherson

  Thinking, Roots, Spirit

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Russia, Growth, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

  Gabriel Byrne

  Dark, Thinking, Eggs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Israel

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• In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room.

  Brian Cody

  Believe, Night, Training

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• I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'

  Colm Meaney

  Actors, Four, Lasts

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

  Anjelica Huston

  Kind, Happens, Lunacy

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• There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.

  Louis Walsh

  Squares, Support, Radio

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• I guess home is where the heart is, as they say. I've moved around the stage a lot - but I had intended on moving to New York anyway so I could live closer to Ireland and to Europe. That's where my sensibility is. This has just facilitated that process.

  Sean Mahon

  New York, Moving, Home

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

  Rory McIlroy

  Family And Friends, Take Me Back, Flight

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Beautiful, Teenager, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.

  Robert Hass

  Two, Republican, Poet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Tongue, Genius, Excess

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• I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Government, Politics

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• And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

  James Joyce

  Perfect, Water, Humanity

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• O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.

  James Joyce

  Love, Sex, Heart

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.681, e-artnow

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• Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Home, Theatre

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• ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "

  William Dalrymple

  Country, Kings, Coffee

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• Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

  John Lennon

  Song, Europe, Scotland

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

  John Lennon

  Song, Real, Singing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

  Crispin Glover

  People

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