Horgan Quotes & Sayings

By the time I finally finished writing The End of Science , I'd concluded that people don't give a shit about science.... They don't give a shit about quantum mechanics or the Big Bang. As a mass society, our interest in those subjects is trivial. People are much more interested in making money, finding love, and attaining status and prestige. So I'm not really sure if a post-science world would be any different than the world of today. — John Horgan

I'm a massive scaredy cat. I'm scared of being in a fast car, I'm scared of being on a rollercoaster, I would never go skiing, I would never do anything that had the possibility of endangering my life in any way. I should get some therapy, really. — Sharon Horgan

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. — Sharon Horgan

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours. — Sharon Horgan

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit. — Sharon Horgan

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house. — Sharon Horgan

The Internet is a wonder, to be sure, but it is also a curse. Part of the problem with the Internet is that it has taught generations of people to look for what they believe to be true, for confirmation of their assumption. That is never a good practice. No matter how square the fact is, if it is soft enough, it can be jammed into a round hole. The Internet is full of very squishy facts. — Sheila Horgan

Things change when you get to 40. I'm embarrassed even that I'm going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you've been on Earth and you start to question what you're going to use the remaining time doing. — Sharon Horgan

The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it. — Sharon Horgan

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it? — Sharon Horgan

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can. — Sharon Horgan

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland. — Sharon Horgan

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon. — Sharon Horgan

Comedians ... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious. — Sharon Horgan

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. — Paul Horgan

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that. — Sharon Horgan

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry. — Sharon Horgan

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them. — Sharon Horgan

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom. — Sharon Horgan

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister. — Sharon Horgan

On Monday, May 10, the coroner's jury issued its finding: that the submarine's officers and crew and the emperor of Germany had committed "willful and wholesale murder." Half an hour later a message arrived from the Admiralty, ordering Horgan to block Turner from testifying. Horgan wrote, "That august body were however as belated on this occasion as they had been in protecting the Lusitania against attack. — Erik Larson

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman. — Sharon Horgan

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow. — Paul Horgan

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers. — Sharon Horgan

At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media ... I went and did an English degree. — Sharon Horgan

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting. — Sharon Horgan

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh. — Sharon Horgan

No matter how many frustrations come along, or how many problems arise, I never lose the feeling of how lucky I am. I'm so pleased to be doing a job that makes me laugh every day. I'm aware that it's a huge privilege. — Sharon Horgan

There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy. — Paul Horgan

I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.' — Sharon Horgan

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate. — Sharon Horgan

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men. — Sharon Horgan

Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There — Eric Von Hippel

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men. — Sharon Horgan

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. — Sharon Horgan

It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan. — Ronald Graham

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it. — Paul Horgan