Quotes About Donegal

#1. My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

Martin McGuinness

#2. Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.

Alan Cheuse

#3. We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

Jack Lynch

#4. I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

Caitriona Balfe

#5. When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.

Orna Ross

#6. I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.

Enya

#7. I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.

Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

#8. The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

Victoria Chang

#10. It isn't enough to feel the pressure of a situation; you must repent and change your heart ... When you cry out to God, let it be the beginning of consistent change in your life.

Terry Virgo

#11. It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

David S.Goyer

#12. One can't always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative.

H.G.Wells

#13. Good describes a situation in comparison with its opposite. Not only that, but what is good or bad also depends on context, which itself is changeable.

Nathan Tamblyn

#14. Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

Steven Spielberg

#15. If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

Rosemary Casals

#16. Spare me the self-righteous indignation. I highly doubt your motives are selfless.

Jaye Wells

#17. I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come - a tremendously liberating knowledge.

Ted Dekker

#18. Some days you have to write..... other days you have to write, write..... and every once in awhile you have to write, write, write.....

S. Thomas Kaza

#19. I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Rima Fakih

#20. Fortunately, Captain Helena Thorn had acquired a reputation for an eclectic taste in sexual companions and a fast turnover

Sophie Angmering

#21. I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never knew what to say.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#22. The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

Kristen Iversen