Top 100 Boyle Quotes
#1. Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
Boyle Roche
#2. Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.
T.C. Boyle
#3. We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.
Danny Boyle
#4. On the most Scottish thing he'd ever seen: I was going through a town called Bathgate at around 11 o'clock at night. And there was a guy leaning and pissing against a front door. He then took out his keys and went inside.
Frankie Boyle
#5. Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. Boyle
#6. Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!
Frankie Boyle
#8. I gave my girlfriend something she didn't expect for Valentine's day ... Chlamydia.
Frankie Boyle
#9. Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.
Thomas Young
#10. I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
Kay Boyle
#11. I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.
Teresa Palmer
#12. Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
T.C. Boyle
#13. I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
Danny Boyle
#14. The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
Greg Boyle
#16. I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#17. I wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new position, that would be good
Megan Boyle
#18. I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
Robert Boyle
#19. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.
T.C. Boyle
#20. And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.
Robert Boyle
#21. I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.
T.C. Boyle
#22. would be hell to pay when he got home. But the devil was in the back seat, keeping time to the music, and hell was a long way up the road.
T.C. Boyle
#23. And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#24. The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
T.C. Boyle
#25. Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?
Frankie Boyle
#26. I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#27. Constellations hanging overhead in the rafters of the universe
T.C. Boyle
#28. Mrs. Dirello trudged out of the room, looking like a fat nun on her way to the gas chamber.
William Boyle
#29. When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
Danny Boyle
#31. I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach ...
Mark Boyle
#32. You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
Danny Boyle
#33. Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
T.C. Boyle
#34. Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
Robert Boyle
#35. I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#36. I'm trying to be a professional singer ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.
Susan Boyle
#37. Lord John, do stop gaping. A woman can possess a mind. If men gave more countenance to what ladies thought, the world would be a much more prosperous place.
Elizabeth Boyle
#38. Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#39. The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
Robert Boyle
#40. I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.
T.C. Boyle
#41. Yes, it was scary, but every time I got a frisson of fear I tried to remember what Frank Quinn was always telling me. "Susan, believe in yourself. You are the person writing your story.
Susan Boyle
#42. He'd been up early all his life and though everybody said the best thing about retirement was sleeping in, he just couldn't feature it. If he found himself in bed later than six he felt like a degenerate,
T.C. Boyle
#43. There are fears that Britain could be facing a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip with misery sprinkles and fuck-where's-my-job-sauce.
Frankie Boyle
#44. It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act ... if someone creates you.
Danny Boyle
#45. The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.
Robert Boyle
#46. Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.
Danny Boyle
#47. Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.
Frankie Boyle
#48. Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.
Gregory J. Boyle
#49. Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.
Frankie Boyle
#50. How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
John Boyle O'Reilly
#51. I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#52. I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
T.C. Boyle
#53. Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
Hal Boyle
#54. All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
Boyle Roche
#55. Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul
Kay Boyle
#56. First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.
T.C. Boyle
#57. The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#58. I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
Danny Boyle
#59. The important thing is that the President be saved from his friends. Bill Hassett urged Truman to rid himself of Boyle without delay. "Your friends will destroy you," Hassett pleaded. "It's all right, Bill," Truman said, as if trying to calm a child. "It's all right." Truman
David McCullough
#60. Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'
Greg Boyle
#61. Boyle is a round, pancake-faced little oddball who gives you the impression that he has a room at home packed with disturbing magazines, neatly alphabetized, but he runs a scene impeccably
Tana French
#62. Survival Movement in Hostile Areas," most of which he could have quoted verbatim if somebody asked him, but really all you had to know was the acronym BLISS: B - Blends in with the surroundings L - Low in silhouette I - Irregular in shape S - Small in size S - Secluded
T.C. Boyle
#63. Your eyes are the shade of intelligence, able to pierce a man's heart with merely a glance. As they have done so to mine.
Elizabeth Boyle
#64. You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.
T.C. Boyle
#65. It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher [things] people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.
Danny Boyle
#66. I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
Danny Boyle
#68. Most psychologists/philosophers we've learned about have experienced severe depressions, attempted suicide, were considered 'freaks' or 'insane' by their peers, locked themselves in their rooms, felt socially isolated, were either celibate or extremely promiscuous, and rarely found 'love
Megan Boyle
#69. The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
Boyle Roche
#70. In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.
Mark Boyle
#71. If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.
Mark Boyle
#72. I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.
Frankie Boyle
#73. To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
T.C. Boyle
#74. A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.
Frankie Boyle
#75. It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.
Frankie Boyle
#76. Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.
T.C. Boyle
#77. I don't know how long i could be a vet before i got bored and started shagging stuff.
Frankie Boyle
#78. I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.
T.C. Boyle
#79. But interestingly its [Star City's] technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.
Danny Boyle
#80. Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.
Frankie Boyle
#81. Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.
T.C. Boyle
#82. Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.
Frankie Boyle
#83. I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!
Jonny Lee Miller
#84. One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
Danny Boyle
#85. W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.
Greg Boyle
#86. I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages
Megan Boyle
#87. I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.
Greg Boyle
#88. The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.
T.C. Boyle
#89. I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
Danny Boyle
#90. I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.
Frankie Boyle
#91. It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.
Willard Boyle
#92. It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
Danny Boyle
#93. The Monmouth-Ocean area is ... always in the best-areas-to-live lists.
Brian Boyle
#94. Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.
Sarah-Patton Boyle
#95. People who think there's no good way to die have obviously never heard the phrase 'Drug-fuelled-sex-heart-attack'.
Frankie Boyle
#96. Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!
Frankie Boyle
#97. Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors ARE controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.
Danny Boyle
#98. Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
T.C. Boyle
#99. From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
Robert Boyle
#100. One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.
T.C. Boyle
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