Pearse Quotes & Sayings

Hate was a far easier emotion to deal with sometimes. It burned fiercely and eventually died. Love stayed. — Lesley Pearse

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons. — Lesley Pearse

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive. — James Pearse Connelly

So how do you know when the boy's perfect for you?' Dulcie asked
Betty gave her a tender look. 'You'll just know. That sounds vague, I know, but it's true. — Lesley Pearse

I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management or acting. I thought, "I don't want to be an actor, but I know production and stage management take acting classes" - this is literally my internal monologue. I was like, "Designers don't have to take acting classes. Cool. I'll check that box." — James Pearse Connelly

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. — Patrick Pearse

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath. — Padraig Pearse

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! — Padraig Pearse

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. — Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately. — James Pearse Connelly

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible. — James Pearse Connelly

A little girl learns about men through her Father. Sam Cameron — Lesley Pearse

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble. — James Pearse Connelly

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real. — James Pearse Connelly

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real. — James Pearse Connelly

Beautiful and rare Aurora,
In the heavens thou art their Flora — Christopher Pearse Cranch

These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space they can grow into. Not so much in New York. Super conservative, super small. — James Pearse Connelly

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future. — Patrick Pearse

There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that." — James Pearse Connelly

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace — Patrick Pearse

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important. — James Pearse Connelly

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express. — James Pearse Connelly

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. — Patrick Pearse

You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed. — Patrick Pearse

If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed. — Padraig Pearse

got very nasty.' 'People mean well, but they can be so tactless sometimes,' Doreen — Lesley Pearse

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

What is love?" Noah said with a wry smile. "If it is having someone on you mind so continuously that you can't eat, sleep or think about anything else, then yes, I love her — Lesley Pearse

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

I don't even know of a room that doesn't have a flat-screen TV in it. These are things that just come in environments these days. And if you were going to walk into a space, where did you come from? Was there a bathroom around the corner? These are things that are authentic, and that's what makes successful television. It's not pre-produced garbage. It's believability and connection. The environment has to tell that story. — James Pearse Connelly

We are spirits clad in veils. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them. — James Pearse Connelly

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally. — Patrick Pearse

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done. — James Pearse Connelly

If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it. — James Pearse Connelly

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. — Lesley Pearse

I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing proud there among all the other stages. I think, "That is so amazing that I did this." — James Pearse Connelly

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things. — James Pearse Connelly

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Brenda had been the landlady of the Pied Horse for twenty years and, as Jack, the village grocer, came in every single day, she knew just how cantankerous, stubborn and mean-spirited he could be. It was a common knowledge that his older daughter, Emily, had left home after a beating and had never been home since. His wife, Mary, was a sweet-natured woman who was well liked by everyone, but she was a bag of nerves and too weak to stand up to such a bully. — Lesley Pearse

I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear. — Lesley Pearse

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Charity couldn't meet her mother's eyes. — Lesley Pearse

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. — Patrick Pearse

I knew one boy who passed through several schools a dunce and a laughing-stock; the National Board and the Intermediate Board had sat in judgment upon him and had damned him as a failure before men and angels. Yet a friend and fellow-worker of mine discovered that he was gifted with a wondrous sympathy for nature, that he loved and understood the ways of plants, that he had a strange minuteness and subtlety of observation - that, in short, he was the sort of boy likely to become an accomplished botanist. — Padraic Pearse

The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea. — James Pearse Connelly

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do." With theater, really, I'd be around the gays. — James Pearse Connelly

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession ... to create a living religion in landscape painting. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? — Padraig Pearse

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah. — James Pearse Connelly

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this. — Patrick Pearse

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it. — Lesley Pearse

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us — Patrick Pearse

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness ... it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated ... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds ... — Patrick Pearse

Now you see only the mystery of this great sorrow; then you shall see how the threatening enemy was swept away in the wild night of fear and grief.
Now you look only at the loss; then you shall see how it struck at the evil that had begun to rivet its fetters upon you.
Now you shrink from the howling winds and muttering thunders; then you shall see how they beat back the waters of destruction, and opened up your way to the goodly land of promise. — Mark Guy Pearse

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance ... — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Now, tomorrow you got to put on a happy face, not for me, nor May, or anyone else, just for yourself. 'Cause that's a magic trick I learned a long time ago, if you look like you're happy, you soon get to be. — Lesley Pearse

A seed of a plot drops into my head, I plant it with a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it through, and once the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown. — Lesley Pearse

Why couldn't she love me, like I love her?' he said just before passing out her chair — Lesley Pearse

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life. — James Pearse Connelly

You're a doormat. You always consider everyone before yourself, and until you learn to be a bit more selfish people will always wipe their feet on you. — Lesley Pearse