Tyrrell Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there. — Jean Alesi

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument. — George Tyrrell

For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests. — Bob Tyrrell

The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it. — Susan Tyrrell

In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point. — Emmett Tyrrell

In 2005, my mad half, HER was born...
ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012. — Karen Tyrrell

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain. — Emmett Tyrrell

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. — Emmett Tyrrell

I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye. — Barry Tyrrell

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery. — Emmett Tyrrell

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach. — Israel Horovitz

Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read. — Francisco J. Ayala

One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion. — Richard Tyrrell

In 2005, my mad half, HER was born ...
ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012. — Karen Tyrrell

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays. — Israel Horovitz

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned. — Emmett Tyrrell

It is true that as World War II recedes into the mists of time, almost all big-hearted progressives or liberals (or whatever self-congratulatory term they apply to themselves) denounce Nazism and fascism with the utmost ardor. Yet when these odious movements were on the rise, many among the British elite cautioned prudence in dealing with them; and some actually admired them, including members of the royal family and, of course, clerics in the Anglican Church. — R. Emmett Tyrrell

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index. — Bob Tyrrell

Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us to deduce that he is a political nitwit. Other Nobel laureates have been nitwits, for instance, Bertrand Russell. There are a lot of political nitwits in this world. Perhaps the Times could give Krugman a cooking column. He would be its Nobel Prise-winning cooking columnist. — Bob Tyrrell

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion. — Emmett Tyrrell

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell

For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same. — Emmett Tyrrell

No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate ... — Bob Tyrrell

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded. — Emmett Tyrrell

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right. — Emmett Tyrrell

Physically, men are of the same species; spiritually each is a species apart — George Tyrrell

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-secular-than-thou does not answer our need for the transcendent. As George Tyrrell wrote about a hundred years ago, "If a [man's] craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, the supernatural, be not fed on true religion, it will feed itself on the garbage of any superstition that is offered to it. — Madeleine L'Engle

The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country. — Bob Tyrrell

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination. — George Tyrrell

We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious. — George Tyrrell