Irish Traveller Quotes & Sayings

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film. — Philippe Petit

How many minds
almost all the great ones
were formed in secrecy and solitude! — Matthew Arnold

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart. — Audrey Niffenegger

We can even see the legal institution of marriage as a precommitment strategy, not unlike that of Ulysses in approaching the Sirens, in which people knowingly choose a legal status that will protect them against their own errors. — Richard H. Thaler

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled. — Jay Leno

Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid
it might as well be dead. — Alice Munro

Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? I did, without thought, among men, without caring that my legs, my arms, my thighs and back were on display, could be seen. Shameful, immodest. — Margaret Atwood

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. — Rebecca MacKinnon