Top 100 Ira Quotes
#1. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams
#2. The story of Genesis could only be a poorly written misconception that put needless blame on women. Estella
Ira Smith
#3. By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
Ira Sachs
#4. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
#5. I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
Ira Sachs
#6. Sifting through these layers of belongings while Ira stood mute behind her, Maggie had a sudden view of her life as circular. It forever repeated itself, and it was entirely lacking in hope.
Anne Tyler
#7. Did you lose the game? Losing's the same as winning; you know that, don't you?" The
Ira Levin
#8. But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass
#9. Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
Ira Sachs
#10. Even among the Amish, other Amish seem odd.
Ira Wagler
#11. Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful ... and gentle.
Sinead O'Connor
#12. political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.
Ira Katznelson
#13. Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
Ira Glass
#14. A mental choice, absent a real heart change, is no choice at all. We couldn't force ourselves to be something we were not. That just couldn't happen. And it didn't.
Ira Wagler
#15. I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
Ira Glass
#16. I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
Ira Glass
#17. In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
Ira Glass
#18. I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
Ira Sachs
#19. If you'll promise not to cry, Baby,
I will kiss you by-and-by - Maybe!
Though you're six feet three,
You will always be
Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.
Ira Gershwin
#20. Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
Ira Sachs
#21. Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Ira Sachs
#22. It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.
James Ira Thomas Jones
#23. Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
Ira Glass
#24. All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira Sachs
#25. I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
Ira Sachs
#26. It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
Ira Glass
#27. You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all ... If that happens, you're doing it right.
Ira Glass
#28. Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira Glass
#29. As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
Ira Sachs
#30. They were confident and cunning. They weren't mucking around looking for nuclear weapon secret sloppy seconds in America. They could care less about America. They were busy with the whole world domination thing.
Ira Levin
#31. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6
Seneca.
#33. Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Joni Mitchell
#34. I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
Ira Glass
#35. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
Martin McGuinness
#36. In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
Harold E. Varmus
#37. When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
Colm Toibin
#38. Movies are romantic fantasies.
Ira Sachs
#39. I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass
#40. In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.
Ira Kaplan
#41. What's the going price for a stay-in-the-kitchen wife with big boobs and no demands?
Ira Levin
#42. People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
Ira Glass
#43. Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.
Dan Brown
#44. When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
Ira Glass
#45. Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.
Roma Downey
#46. As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.
Ira Kaplan
#48. They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round.
Ira Gershwin
#49. I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.
Ira Kaplan
#50. I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.
Suze Orman
#51. It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
Ira Glass
#52. No, thanks, we're not keen on cat pix.
Ira Levin
#53. A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.
Ira C. Eaker
#54. I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
Ira Sachs
#55. Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.
Ira Flatow
#56. I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn't as good as they wanted it to be.
Ira Glass
#57. It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.
Ira Kaplan
#58. I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
Ira Levin
#59. I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.
Jenji Kohan
#60. Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.
Ira Levin
#61. 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
Ira Glass
#62. They gave Mrs. Cortez a check for five hundred and eighty-three dollars - a month's rent in advance and a month's rent as security -
Ira Levin
#63. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
Ira Glass
#64. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
Ira Levin
#65. I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
Ira Glass
#66. You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
Ira Glass
#67. Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
Ira Glass
#68. But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
Juvenal
#69. I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
Ira Sachs
#70. I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
Ira Sachs
#71. When you live with people you know them better than you care to.
Ira Sachs
#72. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
Ira Sachs
#74. Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass
#75. I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
Ira Glass
#76. You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
Ira Levin
#77. They promised me you wouldn't be hurt," he said. "And you haven't been, really. I mean, suppose you'd had a baby and lost it; wouldn't it be the same? And we're getting so much in return, Ro.
Ira Levin
#78. What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
Ira Sachs
#79. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.
Michelle Hodkin
#80. We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
Ira Glass
#81. For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
Gerry Adams
#82. In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass
#84. I don't rehearse with my actors ... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on ... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed ... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
Ira Sachs
#85. S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!
Ira Gershwin
#86. By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
Ira Sachs
#87. I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
Ira Levin
#88. I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
Ira Sachs
#91. Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.
Ira Progoff
#92. Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
Ira Glass
#93. You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
Ira Sachs
#94. I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
Ira Glass
#95. I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
Ira Glass
#96. I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
Chaka Khan
#97. I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
Ira Sachs
#98. My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
Jack Higgins
#99. We've done a lot of films now about the IRA, we can move on from all that. I loved '71 because I think it showed a very honest trail and what it was actually like. It wasn't one-sided. I really respect ['71 director] Yann [Demange] for what he did. But we have done a lot of those things.
Saoirse Ronan
#100. I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
Suze Orman
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