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"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
-- Sean O'Casey |
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-- Flannery O'Connor |
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"My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'"
-- John McGahern |
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"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
-- Sean O'Casey |
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"Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on."
-- James Cagney |
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"If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land..." -- John Lennon |
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"I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool."
-- Chales Lindbergh |
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"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."
-- George Bernard Shaw |
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"Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process."
-- William Butler Yeats |
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"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."
-- George Bernard Shaw |
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"I only drink on two occasions - When I am thirsty and when I'm not thirsty."
-- Brendan Behan |
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