Ireland Slang Quotes & Sayings

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace. — Richard Steele

You chose to live, I chose to die. — Sophocles

We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing. — James Mercer

When one of my teammates botches a shot, the coach tells him to stop being a girl. I wish I could tell him that I was a girl two days ago, and two days before that. Nothing is different. A shot is a shot. — David Levithan

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. — Lois Lowry

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious. — Patrick Marnham

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away. — Henry Rollins

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it. — Mark McGwire

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors. — Eric Stoltz

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Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Even as birds on the wing meet the air continually, we, let us go where we will, meet with that Presence always and everywhere. — Francis De Sales

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act. — Epicurus

(...) I think your definition changes based on your experiences." (age twenty-two, bisexual)

Six years later, this same woman noted:

"I date both men and women, but i don't like the word "bisexual", because I think it implies polarity. I guess I started thinking about this around 4 1/2 years ago, when I was involved in a long-term committed relationship with a man, but a queer man. And it made me redefine things, because I didn't believe that a queer man and a queer woman together in a relationship like ours was conventionally heterosexual." (age twenty-eight, bisexual) — Lisa Diamond