Mair Quotes

#1. My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

Kate Williams

#2. Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

Irvine Welsh

#3. Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides.

Irvine Welsh

#4. As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy's thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can't say I've heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.

Ann Aguirre

#5. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Charles Macklin

#6. I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

Eddie Mair

#7. Keep the tourists out, some tourist from Salt Lake City has written. As fellow tourists we heartily agree.

Edward Abbey

#8. Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it.

Taylor Swift

#9. The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

Eddie Mair

#10. Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection.

Rumi

#11. Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#12. All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

C.J. Mahaney

#13. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Jim Rohn

#14. The judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

Eddie Mair

#15. Let us not become so busy making a living that we forget to enjoy our Life. Every day of Life is meant to be Lived and Enjoyed.-RVM

R.v.m.

#16. Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

Eddie Mair

#17. In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

Oliver North

#18. The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric was universal and it quickly coloured all literature. It

George Herbert Mair

#19. Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

Eddie Mair

#20. God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#21. Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny ...

Eddie Mair

#22. You undo me, Saint."
"I'm sorry."
He sighed and rolled over so that he could pull me on top of his chest. "Just try and put me back together when you're done with me, all right?

Jay Crownover

#23. If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

John Harvey Kellogg

#24. I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization ... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

Pope John Paul II

#25. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.

Eddie Mair

#26. Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

Eddie Mair

#27. Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

Norman Mair

#28. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

#29. So potter with potter contendeth: the hewer of wood with the hewer of wood: the beggar is jealous of the beggar, the ministrel is jealous of the ministrel.

Alexander William Mair

#30. As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?

Eddie Mair

#31. Well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

Eddie Mair