Portmarnock Community Quotes & Sayings

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel. — Eugene McCarthy

To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances. — J.B. Morton

O Canada I have not forgotten you,
as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision
of a bookcase.
You are the paddle, the snowshoe, the cabin in the pines.
You are the moose in the clearing and the moosehead on
the wall.
You are the rapids, the propeller, the kerosene lamp.
You are the dust that coats the roadside berries.
But not only that,
you are the two boys with pails walking along that road. — Billy Collins

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control. — William S. Burroughs

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. — Will Allison

I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong. — Alan Furst

I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME. — Jon Bon Jovi

The death of Satan was a tragedy
For the imagination. — Wallace Stevens

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods. — Harold Speed