Bolger's Quotes

#1. The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

Ron Carlson

#2. I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

Ray Bolger

#3. I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

Olivia Thirlby

#4. Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

Dermot Bolger

#5. May the inward and outward man be as one.

Socrates

#6. [The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do.

Mickey Rourke

#7. And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Jim Bolger

#8. The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

Sarah Bolger

#10. In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

Uday Kotak

#11. I love the dog. She comes for drives with me in the back of my car. Darby is not aggressive or judgmental. She just is. That's what I love about her. She sits there and watches 'The Fugitive' with me.

Sarah Bolger

#12. I looked at you ... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful.
So it was't my hair?

Richelle Mead

#13. I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.

Sarah Bolger

#14. Afghan villages traditionally ran their own affairs, each valley a law unto itself. Afghanistan never enjoyed much of a central government.

Daniel P. Bolger

#15. I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah ... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

Jim Bolger

#16. Normally Felicity liked to spend her recess holding the duty teacher's hand and tattling on kids who were breaking nitpicky safety rules like no climbing fences, no running up the slide, and no using the teeter-totter as a human catapult. - Zombiekins

Kevin Bolger

#17. I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

Sarah Bolger

#18. I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Ray Bolger

#19. The boys wore black T-shirts, dark hoodies and permanent sneers and their hair was an open rebellion against society and interfering mothers. - Zombiekins

Kevin Bolger

#20. My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

Tony McCoy

#21. How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

Ray Bolger

#22. People make mistakes. They do things sometimes that you don't like, that you wouldn't do. But that doesn't mean you should give up on them, that you should write them off. Because nobody is hopeless as long as they're still breathing.

J.M. Darhower

#23. Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.

Sarah Bolger

#24. I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

Dermot Bolger

#25. I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

Jim Bolger

#26. Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.

Jim Bolger

#27. During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

J.K. Rowling

#28. I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

Ray Bolger

#29. We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.

Vironika Tugaleva

#30. You know how it is with fights, though; they're like wells - easy to fall into, and nearly impossible to climb out. "He

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

#31. And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.

Jim Bolger

#32. Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#33. I'm still living in my post-war.

Osamu Tezuka

#34. So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

Jim Bolger

#35. I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

Mick Ralphs

#36. I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

Jim Bolger

#37. I hate to be general, but I rely on Andrew Keenan-Bolger for all things music. Every season, he releases a mixtape on his blog of the most incredible and current music. I download it instantly, and it gets me through the season and keeps me educated musically.

Max Von Essen

#38. To do the same again and again with the same gain not going far and not going somewhere else, it's call stupidy or let's stop the insult and start with an open start. It means you have stuck in the time, for god sake a lot of people get there and hard get out.

Deyth Banger

#39. Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

Jim Bolger

#40. That just goes to show you that parents can do all they can for you, but at the end of the day it's up to you whether you listen or not.

Shareef Jaudon

#41. Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.

Tom Standage

#42. So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Jim Bolger