Top 100 Irwin Quotes
#1. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
Alan Bennett
#2. The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#3. It was only after seeing Irwin's study that I decided to seduce him.
Sylvia Plath
#4. I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.
Dick Cavett
#5. And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)
Jack Kerouac
#6. Tim Irwin cites the maxim: If the leader didn't come to work today, everything would probably still get done; but if the people didn't come to work today, nothing would get done.
Richard Blackaby
#7. I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.
Alysia Reiner
#8. Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.
Jamie McMurray
#9. Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.
Mira Grant
#10. John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
Betty Williams
#11. I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.
Billy Magnussen
#12. The family that catches crocs together, rocks together. The Irwin family motto.
Terri Irwin
#13. Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
Ben Crenshaw
#14. Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
David Attenborough
#15. Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,
Larry Kramer
#16. Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?
Anthony Bennett
#17. In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.
Bindi Irwin
#18. Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
Irwin Rose
#19. I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.
Ashton Irwin
#20. Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.
Bindi Irwin
#21. When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.
Robert Irwin
#22. I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.
Bindi Irwin
#23. We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines
Jazmin Williams
#24. Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good - or not doing wrong?
William Irwin
#25. Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Irwin Shaw
#26. Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
Irwin Shaw
#27. I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
Irwin Shaw
#28. All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.
Steve Irwin
#29. An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw
#30. There are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.
Inez Haynes Irwin
#31. Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
William Irwin Thompson
#32. The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.
Irwin Redlener
#33. I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
Irwin Shaw
#34. Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.
Robert Irwin
#35. Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.
Stephen M. Irwin
#36. If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
Irwin Shaw
#37. We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
Steve Irwin
#38. It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'
Bindi Irwin
#39. Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.
Tom Irwin
#40. So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Steve Irwin
#41. Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
Irwin Redlener
#42. Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him ... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
Bindi Irwin
#43. I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
Irwin Shaw
#44. And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.
Steve Irwin
#45. I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.
Steve Irwin
#46. I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
Irwin Shaw
#47. There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
Steve Irwin
#48. We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Steve Irwin
#49. There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.
Robert Irwin
#50. Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect
Irwin Federman
#51. I think my blood is actually khaki. The khaki is a part of me. It's in my heart.
Bindi Irwin
#52. If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
Irwin Winkler
#53. There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
Irwin Redlener
#54. We live in a zoo, and we get to share all our animals with the people who come in. We really put our animals first, and then the staff, and then the visitors. The animals aren't pacing; they're all happy. When you touch an animal, it ultimately touches you.
Bindi Irwin
#55. I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Steve Irwin
#56. I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.
Irwin Kula
#57. If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.
Robert Irwin
#58. My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
Bindi Irwin
#59. I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.
William Irwin Thompson
#61. It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.
Bindi Irwin
#62. My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
Bindi Irwin
#63. I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Hale Irwin
#64. Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside.
Jennifer Irwin
#65. I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.
Bindi Irwin
#66. I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no.
Terri Irwin
#67. I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
Elaine Irwin
#68. I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance ... but most of all I want a future for our children.
Steve Irwin
#69. justice hath no meaning lest it be tempered with mercy."26
William Irwin
#70. I don't think it's possible to skip with a frown on your face ... I'd like to see the world's governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.
Bindi Irwin
#71. I'm a big advocate for young girls dressing their age.
Bindi Irwin
#72. Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
Irwin Shaw
#73. I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
J. Irwin Miller
#74. It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn't love what you do.
Ashton Irwin
#75. A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Irwin Shaw
#76. The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson
#77. I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.
Bindi Irwin
#78. I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.
Bindi Irwin
#79. The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.
Hale Irwin
#80. Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video
Ashton Irwin
#81. In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!
Bindi Irwin
#82. There is someone special in my life right now, and I'm really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.
Bindi Irwin
#83. Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
William Irwin Thompson
#84. I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
Steve Irwin
#85. There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw
#86. Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.
Steve Irwin
#87. In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
William Irwin Thompson
#88. I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
Irwin Winkler
#89. Those you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously have made you feel like somebody. It wasn't merely because they had the job or the power
they somehow made you feel terrific to be around them.
Irwin Federman
#90. My job, my mission, the reason I've been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin' with me. Yeah, let's get 'em!
Steve Irwin
#91. Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.
Hale Irwin
#92. I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.
James Irwin
#93. I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.
Bindi Irwin
#94. The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
James Irwin
#95. We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose
#96. People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
Hale Irwin
#97. Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
Bill Irwin
#98. The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
Hale Irwin
#99. I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
Steve Irwin
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