Top 100 Irvine Quotes
#1. It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.
Irvine Welsh
#2. We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.
William B. Irvine
#3. Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.
Irvine Welsh
#4. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#5. When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.
Irvine Welsh
#6. -Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick.
Irvine Welsh
#7. His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
Irvine Welsh
#8. There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
Irvine Welsh
#9. I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh
#10. I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh
#11. I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh
#12. When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
#14. The world is ending. This is your chance. Would you rather die here, or in a Jaeger?
Alex Irvine
#15. I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.
Jeremy Irvine
#16. I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.
Jeremy Irvine
#17. I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.
Irvine Welsh
#18. It was, as the song said, 'call to arms music,' and seemed to have little to do with Scotland and New Year. It was fighting music. Stevie didn't want to fight anyone. But it was also beautiful music.
Irvine Welsh
#19. I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.
Murray Walker
#20. I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
Irvine Welsh
#21. He feels the bleakness crawling into his skull; Franco breaths in steadily, trying to tune in all out, that pressure on your brain, eroding focus, diverting the flow of thought down old ruinous canals...
Irvine Welsh
#22. I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.
Robert Irvine
#23. You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
Irvine Welsh
#24. Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
Irvine Welsh
#25. The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh
#26. What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
Irvine Welsh
#27. I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!
Jeremy Irvine
#28. Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but see how crass and vulgar it is when there's none of it in your pocket.
Irvine Welsh
#29. They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can
appreciate what ah feel, what ah need.
Protect me from those who wish tae help us.
Irvine Welsh
#30. His mind raced through past horrors experienced first hand and from the accounts of others. He mentally flipped through a grim database which contained everything from vegan flatmates to psychotic pimps.
Irvine Welsh
#31. But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.
Alex Irvine
#32. Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.
Irvine Welsh
#33. Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'
Jeremy Irvine
#34. My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.
Donald Bren
#35. We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.
William B. Irvine
#36. There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction ... no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.
Irvine Welsh
#37. Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.
Jeremy Irvine
#38. use our reasoning ability to drive away "all that excites or affrights us.
William B. Irvine
#41. I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
Irvine Welsh
#43. Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.
Irvine Welsh
#44. I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
Robert Irvine
#45. I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.
Irvine Welsh
#46. -The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.
Irvine Welsh
#47. When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.
Robert Irvine
#49. I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone.
Justin Chon
#50. I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
Jeremy Irvine
#51. Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
Irvine Welsh
#52. we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
Irvine Welsh
#53. I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.
Jeremy Irvine
#54. OUR MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE in life, according to Epictetus, is whether to concern ourselves with things external to us or things internal. Most people choose the former because they think harms and benefits come from outside themselves.
William Irvine
#55. People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid.
Irvine Welsh
#56. Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine Welsh
#57. To be virtuous, then, is to live as we were designed to live; it is to live, as Zeno put it, in accordance with nature.18 The Stoics would add that if we do this, we will have a good life.
William B. Irvine
#58. A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.
Irvine Welsh
#60. There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.
Jeremy Irvine
#61. Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)
Eddie Irvine
#62. I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them
Irvine Welsh
#63. It should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.
Irvine Welsh
#65. It's all okay, it's all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.
Irvine Welsh
#66. The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh
#67. This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
Irvine Welsh
#68. Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.
Irvine Welsh
#69. It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
Irvine Welsh
#70. There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh
#71. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.
Irvine Welsh
#72. Everything in the street today seems soft focus.
Irvine Welsh
#73. With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.
Lucy Irvine
#74. But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
Irvine Welsh
#75. Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!
Irvine Welsh
#76. It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.
William B. Irvine
#77. We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.
Irvine Welsh
#78. Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
Jeremy Irvine
#79. Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
Irvine Welsh
#80. one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.
William B. Irvine
#81. Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
Robert Irvine
#82. Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
Irvine Welsh
#83. Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.
Irvine Welsh
#84. The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.
Irvine Welsh
#85. One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted.
William B. Irvine
#86. I'd love to get fat on camera. Wouldn't that be great? I'll tell you what's almost as hard though, getting bulked up, getting that big. Here we are in LA and you see guys walking down the street and everyone looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's really quite grim, if you haven't done it before.
Jeremy Irvine
#88. But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.
Irvine Welsh
#89. Everytime ye go to jail, the probability ay ye ever becoming free fae that kind of life decreases. It's the same every time ye go back tae smack. Ye decrease yir chances of ay ever bein able tae dae withoot it.
Irvine Welsh
#90. I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.
Jeremy Irvine
#91. For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.
Jeremy Irvine
#92. Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3
William B. Irvine
#93. Another cunt oaf ma fuckin Christmas caird list.
-Didnae ken ye kept a list, likesay, Franco...
-Every cunt keeps a fuckn list. He taps his heid,
-A Christmas caird list, n that cunt's fuckin well oaf it!
Irvine Welsh
#94. no matter how early you rise or how late you turn in, you never see that point where light begins or the first bruise of darkness bleeds in under its fragile skin; the beauty, and the scary, unfathomable wisdom of transition.
Irvine Welsh
#95. I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.
Jeremy Irvine
#96. Reuse Reduce RECYCLE!
Save the world , no need to be superman.
I bring what i can to the table.
Margaret Irvine
#98. But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.
Irvine Welsh
#99. On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form.
Irvine Welsh
#100. But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.
Irvine Welsh
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