Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Irish Authors - Page 3

I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance.

Sadly, I'm not a natural redhead. But, I prefer my red hair to my blonde hair.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

With 'Stones is His Pockets' you have effectively a bare stage with two actors and yet a whole world in rural Ireland is created. There's the countryside, the bar interior, the dressing room and the star's bedroom.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

I think my presence around the table was mesmerising at times. It captured people.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

I had a ringside seat to cancer. As have most people.

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality - particularly in the woods.

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

There's no problem with trying to be successful, but it's all about just doing good work. It's not about fame.

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

If I wasn't modelling, I guess I would work in fashion as a buyer.

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

I just have mysteries in all my books, I think, whether it's a boy investigating or a girl. I have an enduring fascination with mysteries of all kinds.

There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

You could go out on a Sunday spin in Carrick-on-Suir, and it's a small town, but you could have 80 riders. That wouldn't even be everyone, in the group. It's just such a good environment to bring guys through, the support and the experience.

Sometimes people like the bad boy.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it.