Deadspin Erin Quotes & Sayings

But you're a man, Chess. You're tough."
Chess snorted. "Ever seen the inside of a birthin' room? Stick a pin in the map almost anywhere, you'll find ten women tougher'n me - and you, for that matter. — Gemma Files

Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. — Arthur Conan Doyle

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job ... And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff. — C.S. Lewis

Thus, seeking to produce a typology of forms of the art of government, La Mothe Le Vayer, in a text from the following century (consisting of educational writings intended for the French Dauphin), says that there are three fundamental types of government, each of which relates to a particular science or discipline: the art of self-government, connected with morality; the art of properly governing a family, which belongs to economy; and finally the science of ruling the state, which concerns politics. What matters, notwithstanding this typology, is that the art of government is always characterized by the essential continuity of one type with the other, and of second type with the third. — Michel Foucault

Carmen kicked at the dirt. She couldn't equate finding the virus at home with good luck. It was powerful, this thing, ruthless, a perfectly honed survivor for who knew how many millennia. Perhaps it was old as life itself, a malevolent offshoot of the first sampling of creation. Yet Leigh and Daintith thought they could track it to its lair and swat it like some bothersome insect. — Patrick Lynch

If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you? — Garrison Keillor

There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money. — Heinrich Boll

Also known as 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,' or in the original Welsh, 'Cwm Rhondda,'" added Sonar Taxlaw. — Neal Stephenson

Tut!' I said. 'What did you say?' 'I said "Tut!"' 'Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand. I've enough to endure without being tutted at. — P.G. Wodehouse

The night before I left home, there was the wake in our kitchen as was the custom for anyone going so far away. The kitchen was full of people, two men left their flash lamps lit — Edna O'Brien

Intention is critical. It gets everything in motion. — Janet Conner

People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't. — Marilyn Monroe