Michael Dunlop Quotes

#1. I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.

Eric Stoltz

#2. I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

Michael O'Leary

#3. Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Erich Von Stroheim

#4. You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work.

Michael Dunlop

#5. These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.

Edith Wharton

#6. Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.

Herman Melville

#7. Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Joseph Cook

#8. I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

Michael Dunlop

#9. A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs ... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.

Hans Tietmeyer

#10. When it comes to the question of dependence or independence! - At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.

Jane Austen

#11. My movies are not messed with by the studios.

Nancy Meyers

#12. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.

Michael Dunlop

#13. What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

Timothy Keller

#14. How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

Cyprian Ekwensi

#15. As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad's memorial plaque. Truth doesn't lie in the heart of fortune ... it's under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

Beth Revis

#16. A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

David Almond