Top 100 Healy Quotes
#1. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives
Frank Healy
#2. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.
Michael Healy
#3. The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.
Matthew Healy
#4. Reason #2: The other reason you'll want to track your productivity is because of a little-known principle called The Hawthorne Effect. This effect says that whatever you measure improves.
Ryan Healy
#5. No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.
Christopher Healy
#6. Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based,
Frank Healy
#7. On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him.
Christopher Healy
#9. When writing down a plan, I suggest numbering the steps. But just in case your plan falls into enemy hands, make sure you number them in the wrong order. - The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle
Christopher Healy
#11. It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins.
Dermot Healy
#12. By almost any assessment, the giant was a terrible artist. But he was lucky enough to settle in Jangleheim, a nation whose people had notoriously poor taste. Which just goes to show: There's a place for everybody.
Christopher Healy
#13. I really don't think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don't know where it's been. - Enid Healy
Seanan McGuire
#14. I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.
Glenn Healy
#15. Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't ... you're blind!
Jeff Healey
#16. Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.
Scott Rudin
#17. (during which Gustav was so overwhelmed by emotion that he actually gave Frederic a pat on the back),
Christopher Healy
#18. Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.
Christopher Healy
#19. The best thing I ever did was figure out how to hide a pistol in my brassiere. The second best thing I ever did was let Thomas figure out how to find it, but that's a story for another day. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#20. There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.
Dermot Healy
#21. Once you've been squashed by a giant, a troll doesn't even seem nearly as heavy.
Christopher Healy
#22. It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO
Christopher Healy
#23. People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.
Matthew Healy
#24. After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league.
Glenn Healy
#26. You're never too young to start being a hero. Practice dueling one-handed so you never need to drop your blankie. - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO
Christopher Healy
#27. He was curious to know more about her. So he did something extremely rare. He sent her a note. Even more shocking, he suggested they meet. In person. Two people from different kingdoms - who are engaged to be married. Crazy, I know.
Christopher Healy
#28. We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.
Matthew Healy
#29. Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.
Matthew Healy
#30. I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.
Matthew Healy
#31. Never take a person away from the music they love.
Matthew Healy
#32. One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.
Glenn Healy
#33. There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.
Matthew Healy
#34. He opened the door and entered the Stumpy Boarhound. Which you knew he would do. Because you read the prologue.
Christopher Healy
#35. When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
Dermot Healy
#36. ...and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can make small talk, he said slowly, I can do that but out of the corner of my eye I can see the dark approaching.
Dermot Healy
#37. Wild card, got it," Duncan said. "Just like in Crazy Eights. I can be a diamond; I can be a spade. Whatever you need me to be, I'm that thing. That is so me.
Christopher Healy
#38. Big things begin with big thinking.
Kent Healy
#39. There's no such thing as fighting dirty. There's fighting like you want to live, and fighting like you want to die. If you've got anything to live for - anything at all - I suggest you try the first way. The people you love will thank you for it. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#40. Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy
Matthew Healy
#41. How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder? How can they use quiet inner conversation to build personal realities, sharpen and extend their visual reasoning?
Jane M. Healy
#42. Love shouldn't change you - it should invigorate you. You know, make you a better version of yourself, not someone else.
Carolyn Healy
#43. Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.
Matthew Healy
#44. All victimhood is ego and is not spiritually inspired
Frank Healy
#45. Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.
Jennifer Mathieu
#46. In my culture we just say f**k off.
Ian Healy
#48. A person dies, and we don't feel a thing anymore. We're all worried about the next problem coming, rather than taking the time to appreciate what we've lost now. That's the worst thing.
Mark R. Healy
#49. I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.
Matthew Healy
#50. I'm Liam of Erinthia. I'm here to rescue you ... And You are not Cinderella. You are a tree branch wrapped in a sheet
Christopher Healy
#51. When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.
Michael A. Healy
#52. Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly. "You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way. Have you noticed the spiders?" "Indeed I have: Carmen, Zippy, and Dr. T," Duncan said.
Christopher Healy
#53. It's still a cowl, Frederic grumbled (few things could cause him to summon up his inner courage like improper word usage).
Christopher Healy
#54. The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#56. That," Liam said, "it'll be a lot to live up to." Frederic smiled. "So let's live up to it.
Christopher Healy
#57. MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.
Michael A. Healy
#58. Listen dear hearts to the tale I now sing, / of bad guys from Dar and something something!" He stopped and scratched his chin. "I should probably only use one 'something.
Christopher Healy
#59. I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.
Dermot Healy
#60. Sometimes a hero can be found in the most unexpected of places. That's when you must say to him, "Get out of my kitchen, silly! Don't you have some monsters to fight?" - The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero
Christopher Healy
#61. Oh, by the way, you're going to have to turn over some of your land to the trolls.)
Christopher Healy
#62. All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
Halsey
#63. There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
Dermot Healy
#64. There's nothing wrong with making a last stand. Just make sure you bring enough grenades to share with the entire class. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#65. We need rules when we are young but once they are instilled we can have sensible leeway
Frank Healy
#66. Glances were exchanged around the table. There were some uneasy winces, a couple of ambivalent shrugs, a few determined nods, and one delighted giggle (but only because Duncan had spotted another funny caterpillar).
Christopher Healy
#67. Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done -Liam
Christopher Healy
#68. Brenna Kelly, meet Alice Price-Healy. Grandma, meet Breanna. No one is shooting, stabbing or immolating anyone in this hotel room."
"Please," added Dominic. "I have to sleep here."
"HAIL!" Rejoiced the mice. "HAIL THE LACK OF STABBING, SHOOTING AND FLAME!
Seanan McGuire
#69. I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural.
Matthew Healy
#70. Sometimes you can love someone that you never really knew.
Nancy Ann Healy
#71. Sourav Ganguly is the new Steve Waugh of mind games.
Ian Healy
#72. Look," Liam said, "sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done.
Christopher Healy
#73. I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
Seamus Heaney
#74. Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
...When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
Thomas F. Healy
#75. When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)
Christopher Healy
#76. When in doubt, play dead. Well, unless you might be dealing with a ghoul, or a basilisk, or something else that likes its meat a little ripe. Actually, when in doubt, just start shooting. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#77. Hey! Someone in the crowd is carrying a 'Duncan the Daring' sign!" Duncan shouted. "Oh, it's Frank," he added, less enthusiastically.
Christopher Healy
#78. Ha! Good luck, lady!" Gustav laughed and tapped his thick index finger against his temple. "No one knows what goes on inside this head. Not even me.
Christopher Healy
#80. Wow," a man said. "The song made you sound like an average loser, but in reality you were a horribly pathetic loser.
Christopher Healy
#81. Duncan, what are you?"
"Human!" Duncan cried, trembling with excitement.
"More specific," Liam said, still dramatically.
"A five-foot-two human!"
"I'm going for hero here," Liam hinted under his breath.
Christopher Healy
#82. I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird.
Matthew Healy
#83. Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand
Ian Healy
#84. My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.
Mel Healy
#85. I'm right where I'm suppose to be.
C.M. Healy
#86. Even the most difficult things lead us where we need to go. It just isn't always where we thought we were headed.
Nancy Ann Healy
#87. Everyone has some challenge in their life that it seems no one else has.
Frank Healy
#88. Frederic had imagined this moment - him running to Ella with open arms, calling her name - but being as winded as he was, doubled over with his hands on his knees, all he could do was nod in her general direction.
Christopher Healy
#89. George P. A. Healy; I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience - which is sometimes a great help - and a strong desire to be my very best.
David McCullough
#91. Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you
Dermot Healy
#92. Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.
Matty Healy
#93. No, Princes Charming," Duncan cheerfully corrected. "'Prince' is the noun; that's what gets pluralized. 'Charming' is an adjective; you can't add an S to it like that.
Christopher Healy
#94. Someone's having a pity party and didn't invite the rest of us.
Christopher Healy
#95. One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'
Matthew Healy
#96. I'll show Dunky he's not the only one in the family who can rush foolishly into danger!
Christopher Healy
#97. I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."
Matthew Healy
#98. The greatest joy is the joy of discovery. Followed closely by the joy of a discovery that doesn't kill you. - Enid Healy
Seanan McGuire
#99. If you want to appeal to someone's ego, treat them as the most important person you have ever met. If you want to appeal to someone's soul, approach and interact with them in total love and acceptance.
Frank Healy
#100. Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?
Christopher Healy
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