Kirwan Quotes & Sayings

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission. — B. Joseph Pine II

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!" — Miley Cyrus

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. — Phillip Lim

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. — Thomas Jefferson

PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams.
PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy
PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something. — Gene Roddenberry

Though words are arbitrary in their primitive institution, yet when once their signification is fixed, we are no more entitled to alter it than to call a tree an elephant; for, being no man's private possession, but the common measures of commerce and communication, it is not for any one at pleasure to change the stamp they are current in; at least where there is a necessity to do so, notice of it should be given. — Richard Kirwan

It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom. — N. T. Wright

Being in the Final Four was a dream of mine growing up, and I was unable to fulfill that dream, but I feel like I had a great college career and won a lot of games. — Paul Pierce

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus. — Richard Kirwan

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work. — John Kirwan

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have. — Steve Pavlina

LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW. — Rhonda Byrne

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from. — Neil Diamond

It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that. — Eric Davis

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle. — John Kirwan

Like my dick at the thought of my wife, I don't want to get up. — Logan Ryan Smith

Perception s the only reality that matters — Barry Kirwan