Irish Temper Quotes

#1. I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

Jeanette MacDonald

#2. THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER
1. Make Father Mickey lose his black Irish temper.
2. Wear a turtleneck, take in a deep breath and get strangled.
3. Mary Lane takes the picture.
4. Practice getting away.
5. Sally puts the pedal to the metal.
6. Randa Rhonda Rendezvous

Lesley Kagen

#3. I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Harvey Weinstein

#4. The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

Andy Hobsbawm

#5. As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.

Lesley Gore

#6. I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

Stephen Baldwin

#7. An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#8. Clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

S.J Perelman

#10. Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Stephen D. Krashen

#11. It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#12. When you lose your enemy, it's like you lost your love!

Fereidoon Yazdi

#13. We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.

Louis Pasteur

#14. I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

Marcy Kaptur

#15. By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

Robert Rauschenberg

#16. As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If a group of lions is normally called a pride, then this was, at the very least, an overconfidence. Possibly an arrogance.

Dixie Lyle

#17. The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.

George R. Stewart