Irish 1916 Rising Quotes

#1. But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.

William Kennedy

#2. Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

Harry Morgan

#3. The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#4. Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.

Richard F. Lovelace

#5. I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.

Frances Beinecke

#6. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

#7. There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

Gordon Korman

#8. Likewise, you can't live a truly productive, contented, and joy-filled life while your finances are in complete disarray. A Good Life and financial stability go hand in hand.

Ruth Soukup

#9. I am a war man in the day of war, but I am a peace man in the day of peace.

Michael Collins

#10. Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.

Tim Pat Coogan

#11. The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

#12. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health!

Joseph Murphy

#13. I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.

Bradford Dillman

#14. I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them.

David Berkowitz

#15. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

#16. Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Michel Gondry