Irish Soda Bread Quotes & Sayings

You're after perfection,'Matt said.
'Is that so awful?'
'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one. — Tim Relf

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go. — Peter Riegert

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it. — Harlan Ellison

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet. — Andrew Smith

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. — Erin O'Connor

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. — John Piper

The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story. — John Cleese

The idea that I might be sociopathic was nothing new to me - I'd known for a long time that I didn't connect with other people. I didn't understand them, and they didn't understand me, and whatever emotional language they spoke seemed beyond my capacity to learn. Antisocial personality disorder could not be officially diagnosed until you were eighteen years old - prior to that it was just "conduct disorder." But let's be honest: conduct disorder is just a nice way of telling parents their kids have antisocial personality disorder. I saw no reason to dance around the issue. I was a sociopath, and it was better to deal with it now. — Dan Wells

Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don't enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively - don't go into your protagonist's thoughts until you have something to say about his or her inner life that is more interesting than the reader's suppositions. — Norman Mailer