Irish Artist Quotes

#1. No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

Brian Dennehy

#2. Every world needed an artist.

Stephen Baxter

#3. We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.

Steven Furtick

#4. The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.

Ashmita Acharya

#5. As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

David Pajo

#6. I'm doing what I do well," he said, tugging me nearer. "Taking care of my Turtle.

Christina Lee

#7. We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

Danny Aiello

#8. You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.

Ricky Nelson

#9. I have decided that love is only real and true when it makes you feel safe.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. That's often the case, of course - that creation and madness begin to dance with each other.

Wally Lamb

#11. The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.

Alex Johnston

#12. Father, create in us a new beginning. Help us to forget the failures of the past and allow You to write a new resolution for our lives.

Various

#13. Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

James A. Haught

#14. I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4, and every heel I have is four inches or more.

Laura Wasser

#15. I am opposed to textbooks ... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

Emil Artin

#16. Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

Sinead O'Connor