Irwin Quotes & Sayings

The plane landed, and I had a moment to sit with Steve on my own. It was a bit of an effort to clamber up into the back of the plane. A simple wooden casket rested inside, still secured. I knew that who Steve was, his spirit and his soul, were no longer there, but it was strange how I couldn't cry.
I sat down and leaned my head against the wooden box that held his body and felt such strange peace.
In some way, we were together again. — Terri Irwin

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library. — Irwin Rose

Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon, — James Irwin

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue. — Robert Irwin

Poverty leads to hardship and failure. — Irwin Redlener

Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times. — Bill Irwin

When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don't know whether it's something special with me or whether every man in the city walks around with the same feeling inside him, but I feel as though I'm at a picnic in this city. I like to sit near the women in the theaters, the famous beauties who've taken six hours to get ready and look it. And the young girls at the football games, with the red cheeks, and when the warm weather comes, the girls in their summer dresses ... — Irwin Shaw

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves. — Steve Irwin

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them. — Irwin Winkler

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else. — Hale Irwin

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. — Hale Irwin

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny. — Steve Irwin

A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it. — Stephen M. Irwin

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. — Steve Irwin

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu. — Bindi Irwin

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. — Steve Irwin

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in. — Irwin Winkler

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before. — William Irwin Thompson

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. — Steve Irwin

I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time. — Bindi Irwin

If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with. — Irwin Winkler

To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes. — Hale Irwin

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes. — Bindi Irwin

When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees. — Bindi Irwin

Living in a zoo means it wasn't always sparkly dresses, but I would still dress up. I had this pink sparkly dress and fairy wings, and I'd put those on and then go and dance in the zoo. — Bindi Irwin

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. — Irwin Shaw

But a smell shivered him awake.
It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redolent of soil and bark and herb. It was bats and husks and burrows and moss. It was solid and alive - so alive! And it was close.
The vapors invaded Nicholas' nostrils and his hair rose to their roots. His eyes were as heavy as manhole covers, but he opened them. Through the dying calm inside him snaked a tremble of fear.
The trees themselves seemed tense, waiting. The moonlight was a hard shell, sharp and ready to ready be struck and to ring like steel.
A shadow moved.
It poured like oil from between the tall trees and flowed across dark sandy dirt, lengthening into the middle of the ring. Trees seem to bend toward it, spellbound. A long, long shadow ... — Stephen M. Irwin

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. — Irwin Shaw

It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship. — Hale Irwin

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world. — Irwin Winkler

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. — Irwin Shaw

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things. — Bindi Irwin

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing. — Irwin Shaw

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud. — Irwin Thomas

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them. — Irwin Winkler

I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together. — Bindi Irwin

I know I can count on my mum and brother to be there for me through good and bad times. — Bindi Irwin

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one. — Irwin Winkler

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. — Tom Irwin

It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall. — Ashton Irwin

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. — Irwin Shaw

The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management. — Irwin Redlener

Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him. — Ashton Irwin

I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no. — Terri Irwin

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery. — Irwin Redlener

I am used to wrangling crocodiles. — Bindi Irwin

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. — Alan Bennett

I have the best daddy in the whole world, and I will miss him every day. When I see a crocodile, I will always think of him, and I know that Daddy made this zoo so everyone could come and learn to love all the animals. — Bindi Irwin

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is. — Hale Irwin

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that. — Ashton Irwin

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. — Steve Irwin

Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system. — Irwin Rose

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers. — Irwin Federman

The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars. — Irwin Winkler

OUCH

"The arrabal (a term used for poor neighbourhoods in Argentina and Uruguay) and carpa (informal mobile theatre set up inside tents, once common in Latin America), with their caliente (hot) rhythms such as the rumba or the cha-cha-cha, were conquering audiences all over the world, a trend allegorised in song lyrics about their popularity among the French and other non-Latin Americans - "The Frenchman has fun like this/as does the German/and the Irishman has a ball/as does even the Muslim" ("Cachita") - even as they filtered in the presence of a blackness - "and if you want to dance/look for your Cachita/and tell her "Come on negrita"/let's dance" - denied in the official discourse of those Spanish=speaking countries wielding the greatest economic power in the region: namely, Argentina and Mexico, the latter of which would eventually incorporate Afro-Latin American culture into its cinema - although being careful to mark it as Cuban and not Mexican. — Robert McKee Irwin

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody. — Irwin Shaw

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it. — Irwin Shaw

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.' — Bindi Irwin

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out. — Steve Irwin

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree. — Robert Irwin

I make people step over the ant trail. — Bindi Irwin

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else. — Steve Irwin

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence. — Steve Irwin

I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough. — Bindi Irwin

I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I've always felt athletic and strong. — Elaine Irwin

Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's. — Jamie McMurray

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. — William Irwin Thompson

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. — Bindi Irwin

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. — Irwin Shaw

Playing Super Mario Bros. 2 again, in the two-bedroom apartment I share with my wife, is to re-learn the productivity of cussing. Playing any game, for that matter, bends my larynx into the saltiest shapes imaginable. With time comes an understanding that the game on your screen is nothing compared to life's true challenges. Still, with each fall down a pit or graze of a fireball-spitting plant, my mild-mannered speech pattern gives way to filth. Super Mario Bros. 2 is not even known as a difficult game. But to a player of limited and rusty skills, i.e., your author, it pushes back. — Jon Irwin

Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever. — Bindi Irwin

I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too. — Ashton Irwin

I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience. — Bindi Irwin

In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more. — Robert Irwin

Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video — Ashton Irwin

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw

A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego. — Steve Irwin

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well ... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven. — Irwin Shaw

Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside. — Jennifer Irwin

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. — Irwin Shaw

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life. — Bindi Irwin

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch. — Irwin Winkler

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. — William Irwin Thompson

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. — Irwin Shaw

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young. — Irwin Shaw

My favourite animal would probably be - probably be a dingo. Because I like how in the night you can - at the zoo, you can hear them howl and stuff like that. It's just amazing. — Bindi Irwin

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas. — Terri Irwin

A writer has to live with a sense of honor. — Irwin Shaw

It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win. — Irwin Shaw

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. — William Irwin Thompson

God challenges all of us to attempt things for him which we are unable to do in ourselves, so that the Glory may be his. — Phyllis Irwin

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage. — Bindi Irwin

HEADMASTER: I was a geographer. I went to Hull.
IRWIN: Oh. Larkin.
HEADMASTER: Everybody says that. 'Hull? Oh, Larkin.' I don't know about the poetry ... as I say, I was a geographer ... but as a librarian he was pitiless. The Himmler of the Accessions Desk. And now, we're told, women in droves.
Art. They get away with murder. — Alan Bennett

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. — Bindi Irwin

When your IQ rises to 28, sell. — Irwin Corey

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.' — Irwin Thomas

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals. — Bindi Irwin

Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that. — Bindi Irwin

I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here. — Bindi Irwin

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention. — Robert Irwin