Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Quotes

#1. Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? I

Plato

#2. It is the central irony of my life that when I want something and end up getting it, it makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

Jennifer Armintrout

#3. My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

#4. Fortunately, I've never had a job.

Lyle Lovett

#5. It's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Jean Kerr

#6. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#8. If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.

Les Lynam

#10. For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Albert Speer

#11. The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Ann Richards

#12. It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks in Kenya's velds or a cherry red Ferrari. Real loneliness wasn't something an assistant scoped out and got a good price on. Real loneliness was smothering and it stank of hopelessness.

Douglas Coupland