Paudy Byrne Quotes

#1. Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

Hayao Miyazaki

#2. It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Jenny Han

#3. What is your principal characteristic, would you say?'

'Treacherousness,' said Danny, gloriously.

'That,' said Lymond pleasantly, 'is everyone's principal characteristic.

Dorothy Dunnett

#4. Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. I'm keeping it," he said.
"Okay. But you have to give me something in return."
"What would you like? And please keep your requests above the neck.

Tiffany Reisz

#6. What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

Robert Hellenga

#7. We have to be very careful, we have to be very vigilant but to think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cell phone - who do they think they are? Now we have to open it up.

Donald Trump

#8. As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

George MacDonald

#9. It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#10. I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

Jake LaMotta

#11. I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Derek Jacobi

#12. Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!

James A. Michener

#14. Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

Adam Ant

#15. We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Guy Davenport