Irish Harp Quotes

#1. Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

Josh Lanyon

#2. We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

Rand Paul

#3. Some easy-listening Muzak came onto the phone. I held it away from my ear. If you listened close for long, it gave you cavities.

Robert B. Parker

#4. There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

Alice Waters

#6. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce

#7. Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

Tracy Thompson

#8. That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

Marguerite Duras

#9. I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

Richard Harris

#10. I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

John McCormack

#11. Convictions do not imply reasons.

Margaret Deland

#12. The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

#13. There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

William Cowper

#14. She shared the curse of many artists - that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.

Carol Anshaw

#15. As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

Martin Luther King Jr.