Top 79 Flaherty Quotes
#1. If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
Dorothea Benton Frank
#2. As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both a man and a politician, I will remember him for his pleasant demeanour and strength of character.
Thomas Mulcair
#3. I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.
Stephen Harper
#4. I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty)
"Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.
Melissa Marr
#5. I'm not asking you to buy the milk, O'Flaherty, I just want you to grope the cow.
Abigail Roux
#6. A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
Alice Weaver Flaherty
#7. Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?
Liam O'Flaherty
#8. Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.
Jordan Flaherty
#9. There are some friends you don't risk for your own peace of mind. Some things ... at the time it wasn't worth the risk of losing him.
Abigail Roux
#10. You trying to sweep me off my feet?" Kelly asked, a little breathless.
Nick grinned. "No. But I am going to take you up on that sloppy blowjob you offered."
Kelly cackled as Nick dragged him inside. "Who says romance is dead?
Abigail Roux
#11. This could work out pretty nice for both of us, Nicko. I've never been with anyone where it was so easy so fast. Where it felt like home. But you've always been home to me.
Abigail Roux
#12. 'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.
Joe Flaherty
#15. It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.
Jim Flaherty
#16. I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.
Jim Flaherty
#17. You stupid cow!" He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. "You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone's a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren't enough to convince you of that?
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty
#18. It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
Alice Weaver Flaherty
#19. Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.
Colin Flaherty
#20. Johns, what the fuck are you doing?" Digger called. "You don't chat with ghosts, you fucking run like Scooby-Doo, man!"
"It's okay," Owen told them.
"Scooby-Doo!"
"Not okay," Nick cried.
Abigail Roux
#21. Where are we?" Nick shouted.
"I don't know, you're the nautical one. I just piloted the boat out of the harbor."
"Pirated! You pirated it out of the harbor!"
"Semantics.
Abigail Roux
#22. When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.
Joe Flaherty
#23. We've been seeing some good things from Randy. We're starting to see that Randy Johnson attitude that we've been looking forward to seeing.
John Flaherty
#24. They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.
Joe Flaherty
#25. We've been playing chess with this iPhone app. He hasn't made a move in so long our last game got forfeited. Ten days, or something like that."
"You two play chess on your phones?" Ty asked.
"Yeah." Zane shrugged.
Abigail Roux
#26. I don't think most people start by saying 'no' to God, they're just not sure they're prepared to say 'yes'. And then as time goes by it's as if it gets harder and harder to say 'yes' because they've developed a whole lifestyle around 'no.
Tom Flaherty
#27. Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
Jim Flaherty
#28. Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy.
Bob Flaherty
#29. I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.
Jim Flaherty
#30. I'm not under the influence anymore. Much. Even if I was, I've done things way worse than you that I've never regretted.
Abigail Roux
#31. You're so fucking hot, you know that?" Kelly whispered.
"I bet you tell that to all your oldest friends as you're jacking them off."
Kelly snickered and arched his back, seeking contact. "No, just you.
Abigail Roux
#32. Ty tapped Nick's knee. "Do you really want him left behind knowing you did this? It can wait until we get back."
"Just stop talking, Beaumont," Nick grunted. "You're like the Bermuda Triangle of morals."
Zane snorted and covered it with a cough.
Abigail Roux
#33. All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.
Robert J. Flaherty
#34. I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
Abigail Roux
#35. There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.
Joe Flaherty
#36. 'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.
Joe Flaherty
#37. I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.
Joe Flaherty
#38. If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.
Joe Flaherty
#39. Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.
Colin Flaherty
#40. He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty
#42. I love you, Nick," Kelly whispered. "No matter what those words meant before, we know what they mean now. They're ours now. Just ours.
Abigail Roux
#43. I had a lot of nights alone," Kelly said. Nick raised his head, and their noses brushed. Kelly's breath was warm against his lips. "I called your name every damn time.
Abigail Roux
#44. I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.
Liam O'Flaherty
#45. There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.
Jim Flaherty
#46. My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.
Joe Flaherty
#48. The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.
John Flaherty
#50. Oh Jesus, Digger on a horse," Kelly said. "He kept threatening to make his horse into stew."
"He named his horse Stu," Nick added.
Abigail Roux
#51. We're always flexible and pragmatic ... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most Canadians working. We were successful in that back in 2008-09.
Jim Flaherty
#52. Look, I love you." Kelly told him. "You love me. We've bled for each other. Why can't that turn into more?
Abigail Roux
#53. It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.
Liam O'Flaherty
#54. Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
Robert J. Flaherty
#55. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.
Robert J. Flaherty
#56. I love you," Nick whispered. "Has nothing to do with the circumstances, or our history, or how close to death we've come together. I would love you in any incarnation of yourself.
Abigail Roux
#57. Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.
Colin Flaherty
#58. I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before," Nick grumbled.
Kelly laughed harder. "I'm pretty sure it was."
"Shut up."
"You're high."
"Oh, look at the pothead calling the kettle names," Nick said in a singsong voice as he settled onto the wide chaise beside Kelly.
Abigail Roux
#60. Now you should be thinking about me fucking you," he hissed. "Because I sure as hell am."
"Oh God," Kelly breathed.
"No, you don't say his name when I fuck you. You say mine.
Abigail Roux
#61. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.
Liam O'Flaherty
#62. I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.
Jordan Flaherty
#63. I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.
Jim Flaherty
#64. What are books good for?"
"Hitting intruders?" Nick mumbled. He rubbed his eyes again. "Doorstops. Insomnia. Special interrogation techniques. Silencing bedmates in the middle of the night.
Abigail Roux
#65. The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.
John Flaherty
#66. The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
Alice Weaver Flaherty
#67. It was a terrible psychic blow ... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?
Joe Flaherty
#68. What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home.
Joy Davidman
#69. Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know, 'Family Guy?' I watch that because the guy is good.
Joe Flaherty
#71. To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.
Joe Flaherty
#72. What do you think of Christmas?"
"I like it," she said. "I think we should have it every year.
Liz Flaherty
#73. Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
Joe Flaherty
#74. That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
Joe Flaherty
#75. Got anything we can cull the herd with?"
Nick stared at Zane for a few seconds. "I never realized how disturbing your accent is until you use cow analogies."
"Yeah okay, say 'car'.
Abigail Roux
#76. I am. You sound hungover."
"It's Canada Day."
"So?"
"So, I'm in Canada."
"Why?"
"Because it's Canada Day! Come on, Garrett!"
Zane snorted.
Abigail Roux
#77. Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
Joe Flaherty
#78. Life gives you everything you need; you may not know you need it when you get it, but it will always become apparent later. I
Lorraine Flaherty
#79. There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'
Robert J. Flaherty
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