Dairine Wicklow Quotes & Sayings

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed. — Ving Rhames

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. — Tom Brokaw

Memories and emotions are all tied up. The morestrongly you feel about a situation influences how youremember it. — Myra McEntire

Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude. — Stonewall Jackson

Without you, I would be a monster. — Nalini Singh

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. — John F. Kennedy

I'm homeless, and I'm an alcoholic. But I have a dream.'
'What's that?'
'I wanna go fishing. — Brandon Stanton

This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account' should be tattooed on the left wrist of every grad student in the anglophone world. — David Foster Wallace

People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy. — Robin Sharma

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. — Aeschylus

In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other people's eyes. Fame, admiration, envy - all which come from others. Others dictated his convictions, which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that other believed he held them. Others were his motive power and his prime concern. He didn't want to be great, but be thought great. He didn't want to build, but to be admired as a builder. He borrowed from other in order to make an impression on others. It's his ego that he's betrayed and given up. — Ayn Rand

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage. — Barry Sheene

Surviving is about need. Living is about want. — Dan Groat