Dervla Quotes

#1. Dervla shut her car door, plunging them into

Vicki Tyley

#2. There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

Dervla Murphy

#3. Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

John Connolly

#4. If you don't want people to know what's on your computer, don't kill anyone! (Sniper) 03-10-2014

Jan Thomas

#5. Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

Dervla Murphy

#6. [On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.

Dervla Murphy

#7. I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

Dervla Murphy

#8. The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature.

Dervla Murphy

#9. Hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Dervla Murphy

#10. One of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

Dervla Murphy

#11. Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy

Dervla Murphy

#12. An ugly woman that honors you is better than a beautiful woman that dishonors you".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#13. Strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

Dervla Murphy

#14. If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!

Dervla Murphy

#15. Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

Sarah Black

#16. Apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

Dervla Murphy

#17. I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

Dervla Murphy

#18. For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.' And

Dervla Murphy

#19. Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Spiro T. Agnew

#20. On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India ... However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

Dervla Murphy

#21. The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Dervla Murphy

#22. If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.

Frederick Lenz

#23. the fact that she completely obscured his view of the road was quite irrelevant since Asian drivers never look where they're going.

Dervla Murphy

#24. With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

Dervla Murphy

#25. The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.

Dervla Murphy

#26. The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

H.G.Wells

#27. Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

Dervla Murphy

#28. The classical music world is so snobbish.

Andre Rieu

#29. Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.

Dervla Murphy

#30. I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

Benicio Del Toro

#31. That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

Stephanie Oakes

#32. Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

Dervla Murphy

#33. Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

Dervla Murphy

#34. I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

Jessica Simpson

#35. Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time."
"Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

C.S. Lewis