Pogues Fairytale Quotes & Sayings

Having a CORE main focus is the key to being able to stay determined. Most people only set small goals and when they accomplish them ... it's hard to stay on track as they are not trying to achieve anything else. — Scott Herman

Merry Christmas me bollocks. The words of the Pogues's 'Fairytale of New York' also came to mind: surrounded by scumbags and maggots, I prayed God it would be my last in Los Teques. — Paul Keany

When you spend your days doing what fulfills you, you are attractive. — Thomas Leonard

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion. — Isabel Allende

Pale as a candle flame in the dusk, tallow-pale, he stalked along, holding her hand, and Louie looked up and beyond him at the enfeebled stars. Thus, for many years, she had seen her father's head, a ghostly earth flame against the heavens, from her little height. Sam looked down on the moon of her face; the dayshine was enough still to light the eyeballs swimming up to him. — Christina Stead

Issues are like assholes, we've all got one, Pam snipped. — Tonya Hurley

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr

I've noticed that houses take on the personality of the people who live in them. I'm not sure how it happens, but they become alive in some way, as if they have their own spirit. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must. — William Shakespeare

Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry

If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time. — Ernie Irvan

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy. — Antoine Rivarol

I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight. — Toni Morrison

I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out ... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube." — Ice Cube

Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments ... for the one million girls who have very little use for them. — Gail Parent

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything. — Shania Twain