Boojum Ireland Quotes & Sayings

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. — Emil Cioran

The favourite activity is drinking a lot of beer and the second is throwing it up again) — Bill Bryson

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone De Beauvoir

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare. — Dennis Miller

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket. — Groucho Marx

As he looked across to the opposite bank a cold claw sank into his heart. Sandstorm was gone. — Erin Hunter

I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf. — Jack Jason

Right then, the future was barely an hour long. — Tim Lebbon

Miko shared everything with him and Malachi had become her voice of reason. The only thing he was openly disgusted about was her relationship with the president and in return, it was the one topic that was off-limits. Somehow, — Nako

As baggage I would be taking along a number of strong opinions on why so many Americans don't learn to write and why they live in so much fear of trying. One of them has to do with English teachers. Under the American system, they are the people who teach our children to write. If they don't, nobody will. They do it with dedication, and I hope they'll be rewarded, if not here on earth, at least in heaven, for there's almost no pedagogical task harder and more tiring than teaching somebody to write. But there are all kinds of reasons why English teachers ought to get some relief. One is that they shouldn't have to assume the whole responsibility for imparting a skill that's basic to every area of life. That should be everybody's job. That's citizenship. — William Zinsser

But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you. — Jeanette Winterson

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something ... fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve.
And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point. — Steven Erikson