Liffey River Quotes & Sayings

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. — Wislawa Szymborska

The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States. — Steve Inskeep

Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying Death. — Steve Toltz

Life is like a game, once your piece is on the board there is no leaving until you have finished. It does not matter how you finished just that you pass the line ... — Samuel Train

The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you ... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect. — George Steele

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. — Dennis Ritchie

A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head. — Kate Atkinson

Always check your ego before going into a conversation. — Nancine Lively

Because when you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing." "No one knows exactly what they're doing," I said. "That's because people are lazy and undisciplined. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. — Jeffery Keedy

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. — Alan Perlis

A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course. — Megan McKenna

Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe. — Lisa Mason

I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV. — Richard Madden

I had a crush, but I'm not sure I actually had a crush on Sam Hunt. He was the face attached to it, but I don't really know much about him at all. I thought he played basketball, but I think it may have actually been volleyball. No matter. I took what I knew, and I filled in the details to my liking. It was fun. And also ridiculous. When you have a crush on a half-real, half-imaginary boy, you will always be disappointed. — Emily P. Freeman