Top 100 Deirdre Quotes
#1. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!
Ransom Riggs
#2. Before I can process what's happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger.
"Rhine Ashby," he says.
"My wife.
Lauren DeStefano
#3. Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.
Rebecca Miller
#4. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good vs. evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good vs. doing nothing. -Deirdre Sullivan
Jay Allison
#5. Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred.
Impossible. Curses were for witches, spell casters and the weak-minded.
Jean M. Grant
#6. Gifted Deirdre cast the spell that enabled our souls to eventually be reunited. She couldn't bear for us to be apart, and neither could I.
Hope Irving
#7. Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?
Richelle Mead
#8. I'll see you in Hell first." Deirdre threw back her head and laughed. Her floor-length white hair twitched around her ankles. "This is Hell, Broc.
Donna Grant
#9. You're special, Deirdre, and don't ever think otherwise.
Jean M. Grant
#10. Some of my favorite contemporary Montana writers and their books include Annick Smith's Homestead, a memoir of her experiences, along with her husband and four children, homesteading in the Blackfoot Valley on 163 acres in the 1960s; Deirdre
Nancy Pearl
#11. The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust.
James Kenneth Stephen
#12. And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, 'So you've come to demonstrate that it was all, after all, autobiographical.
Tim Parks
#13. There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage
a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
Lauren DeStefano
#14. Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.
'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.
Roger Zelazny
#15. We can't afford another Deirdre issue.
Jake Bible
#16. This is a madhouse!" said Horace. Deirdre laughed. "No, doveling. It's a menagerie.
Ransom Riggs
#18. I did," he admitted. "I saw evil more deadly, more intent, than you could imagine. I fear for us, Reaghan. I fear nothing we can do will ever defeat Deirdre.
Donna Grant
#19. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#20. Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
Deirdre O'Kane
#21. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
Deirdre O'Kane
#22. I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and you can find neither the words nor the images to express it.
Deirdre Madden
#23. I define myself by helping others. This is what I do.
Those people who want me to abandon my husband are asking me to put myself first and to judge him. The poor man has been judged unfairly by others. Why would I abandon him in his greatest need?
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#24. Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#25. To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it's a risk that's worth taking.
Deirdre Martin
#26. There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty.
Deirdre Madden
#29. Do we really mean it when we say 'in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, 'unless you shame me or disappoint me?' What is the cost of unconditional love and how capable are we of giving that?
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#30. Mama sneers at the mention of Brittany's name. "Good luck. You probably won't find anything that'll fit.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#31. I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#32. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#33. You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
Deirdre O'Kane
#34. But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#35. I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.
Deirdre O'Kane
#36. But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.
Deirdre Madden
#37. Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.
Deirdre Madden
#39. It was strange that someone whose need to worship was so intense could be so dismissive of religion.
Deirdre Madden
#40. There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.
Deirdre O'Kane
#41. Luke glanced at me, his expression oddly light. "Shh, pretty girl. Let's enjoy ourselves for a bit before you start riddling again ".
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.
Deirdre Madden
#43. I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.
Deirdre O'Kane
#44. Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.
Deirdre O'Kane
#45. She wondered what life would be like if there was always an arm around her shoulder and if there was a back that welcomed her hug all the time.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#47. It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
Deirdre O'Kane
#48. Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
Deirdre O'Kane
#49. Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#50. Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!
Deirdre O'Kane
#51. The change in rhetoric has constituted a revolution in how people view themselves and how they view the middle class, the Bourgeois Revaluation. People have become tolerant of markets and innovation.
Deirdre N. McCloskey
#52. In the apprehension of art there can be a loneliness, as there so often is in its creation. This breaching of loneliness may be the secret of what an audience is, or at least one of its secrets.
Deirdre Madden
#53. When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre.
Deirdre O'Kane
#54. I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.
Deirdre O'Kane
#55. I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.
Deirdre O'Kane
#56. Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.
Deirdre O'Kane
#57. I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.
Deirdre O'Kane
#58. Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.
Deirdre Madden
#59. That businesspeople buy low and sell high in a particularly alert and advantageous way does not make them bad unless all trading is bad, unless when you yourself shop prudently you are bad, unless any tall poppy needs to be cut down, unless we wish to run our ethical lives on the sin of envy.
Deirdre N. McCloskey
#60. I lend you a thousand bucks to pay for a date with myself. I let you talk me into wearing a damn tuxedo. The least you could do is hold my hand.' - Paul van Dorn
Deirdre Martin
#61. I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
Deirdre O'Kane
#62. You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.
Deirdre O'Kane
#63. When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'
Deirdre O'Kane
#64. To all those who've stepped out of their own shadow. For those who haven't, the sunshine awaits you.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#65. I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in the imagination which is so difficult to sustain through the course of one's whole life.
Deirdre Madden
#66. Dark feelings can become a habit. And if they're strong enough, like many strong feelings, they can even be enjoyable.
Deirdre Madden
#67. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.
Deirdre O'Kane
#68. ... I could feel a nostalgia for the evening already setting in, a longing for the existence of this night building before my eyes.
Deirdre Shaw
#69. 'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#70. The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Deirdre O'Kane
#71. I had been here during heavy rain, the kind of rain that becomes pleasurable to watch because it makes of the house a haven. The rooms in which one moves become a world apart from the wet streets, the sodden garden.
Deirdre Madden
#72. I can't begin to guess her story, except that there were undoubtedly two times or three, when what had happened to her was grievously at odds with what she had expected - so grievously at odds that any return to the faith or the patterns of the time before the event became impossible.
Deirdre McNamer
#73. In fact, you're my favorite person in the world. You have confidence in there, but sometimes I think you just misplace it.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#74. A shell like this one, beautiful to begin with, can get cracked and slivered, and then time, the tides, maybe even the wind, tumble and toss it, and it becomes something new, a perfect version of itself.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#75. If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They
Deirdre Gould
#77. I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.
Deirdre Madden
#78. I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
Deirdre O'Kane
#79. I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.
Deirdre O'Kane
#80. I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.
Deirdre O'Kane
#81. Yes ... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.
Deirdre O'Kane
#82. I think boarding school does give you an independence.
Deirdre O'Kane
#83. I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.
Deirdre O'Kane
#84. Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying ... There is always something you can do ... Create something, a play reading ... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
Deirdre O'Kane
#85. The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life.
Deirdre Madden
#86. It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.
Deirdre Madden
#87. I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach.
Deirdre O'Kane
#88. I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
Deirdre O'Kane
#89. Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.
Deirdre O'Kane
#90. I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.
Deirdre O'Kane
#91. I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.
Deirdre O'Kane
#92. I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market.
Deirdre O'Kane
#93. I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.
Deirdre O'Kane
#94. I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.
Deirdre O'Kane
#95. I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#96. Let's talk about the homoerotic undertones in sports," she said.
Paul thrust his head forward as if he hadn't heard right. "Excuse me?
Deirdre Martin
#97. My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.
Deirdre O'Kane
#98. I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
Deirdre O'Kane
#100. One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.
Deirdre O'Kane
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