Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Stephens

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

The Irish put on a press that we weren't ready for for some reason. We started to play sloppy.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

John Reilly

This is very Irish weather, but it didn't dampen our spirits.

I'm not very much Irish, but I'm enough Irish to be here.

George Farquhar

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Zinedine Zidane

We'll have to be tough in Dublin. We'll need to have a strong physical presence because the Irish are going to come at us hard. But we're more than capable.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The theme of the symposium is the American Irish, and the Irish in American film.

Alex Ferguson

Roy is the same. There has been speculation that he is going to Celtic, that he has had a massive bust-up with me and that the Irish situation has been a problem. It hasn't been.

They don't play Irish music, but at that point, I don't think many people will notice.

Cillian Murphy

I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'

Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.