Top 77 Quotes About Finnegan
#1. Is it...Richard Frederic?"
"No, and I am not going to--"
"Russell Francis?"
"No. You're being--"
"Rumpelstiltskin Finnegan?"
Jackaby sighed. "Yes, Miss Rook. Rumpelstiltskin. You've found me out. I am the devious imp of the fairy tales.
William Ritter
#2. If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Maeve Binchy
#3. If our DNA has a literary equivalent, it's Finnegan's Wake.
Jonah Lehrer
#4. Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.
Julian Barnes
#5. It was the night that the power went out in Berkeley that he'd finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the light of a candle. Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.
Anne Rice
#6. I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Johnny Depp
#7. You have reached the always awesome, ever charming, and obscenely handsome Finnegan Lane," he chirped in my ear. "How may I be of service to you today?
Jennifer Estep
#8. I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an awkward press conference for my parents. Officer, do you have any leads? Well, based on Mr. Finnegan's computer entries, we think he was abducted by Sorority Sluts.
Christian Finnegan
#9. Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other. And his shadow, which followed him closely and knew all of his secrets, might have said he was both.
Stephen Krensky
#10. You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'
Joe Biden
#11. I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.
William Finnegan
#12. There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true that the best surf around here tends to happen in winter, so you need a good wetsuit, and the time window of good waves is often pretty short, so you have to stay on top of the forecasts.
William Finnegan
#13. There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.
William Finnegan
#14. For thousands of years, they have known, when you were born and when you will die.
- Would you want to know?
Grant Finnegan
#15. I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.
Christian Finnegan
#16. I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I feel like this time's gonna be different. I figure one of two things is gonna happen: either I'll get into shape, or I'll just resign myself to paying an $85 a month fat tax.
Christian Finnegan
#17. I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.
William Finnegan
#19. Gin's the toughest gal I know. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking, just like a Timex. Isn't that right, Gin?
Jennifer Estep
#20. Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.
William Finnegan
#21. The thought of him is electric, beating in my chest like a birthday wish, dark and warm and secret.
Brenna Yovanoff
#22. The Smurf village was destroyed weeks ago and Bush has still not made an appearance. George Bush doesn't care about tiny blue people.
Christian Finnegan
#23. People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?
Christian Finnegan
#24. Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.
William Finnegan
#25. I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.
Jennifer Estep
#26. The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.
William Finnegan
#27. As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.
William Finnegan
#28. So maybe he'd teach me, train me, and I would fall a little more in love with him every day and then he'd leave anyway. Or maybe not. Either way, I'd take it, though. I'd take him for as long as I could get him and worry about the rest when it came.
Christine O'Neil
#29. I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me.
Brenna Yovanoff
#30. I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg.
Christian Finnegan
#31. Finny Boone is probably a sociopath. A big, lighter-stealing sociopath, but his eyes are steady and complicated.
Brenna Yovanoff
#32. I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first."
Finn eyed me. "Sometimes I think you're even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am."
I grinned. "You only wish you could be as ruthless as me."
"Absolutely.
Jennifer Estep
#33. All kidding aside, just be careful around this guy, okay, Gin? A slick smile can hide a lot of sins." He paused. "Trust me. I know all about that." "Of course you do. You've broken far more hearts than I've ever cut into.
Jennifer Estep
#34. Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.
Christian Finnegan
#35. If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.
Christian Finnegan
#38. Aw, man," Finn said, coming up to stand beside me, a black duffel bag dangling from his hand. "I didn't even get to shoot anybody." "Well, look on the bright side," I drawled. "Your clothes didn't get messed up. Neither did your hair." Finn perked up at my reasoning.
Jennifer Estep
#40. I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.
Christian Finnegan
#41. Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.
Christian Finnegan
#42. Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.
William Finnegan
#43. There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart ... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.
Christian Finnegan
#44. Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.
Christian Finnegan
#45. It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
William Finnegan
#46. I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.
William Finnegan
#47. If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.
Christian Finnegan
#48. Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
William Finnegan
#49. Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.
Christian Finnegan
#50. If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.
Christian Finnegan
#51. There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.
Christian Finnegan
#52. You bruised my ego, you see, and there's just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
Jennifer Estep
#53. Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?" he said.
"This was a Fiona Fine original.
Jennifer Estep
#54. America may be entering it's Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.
Christian Finnegan
#55. I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.
William Finnegan
#56. Surfing, to begin with, was not a "sport." It was a "path." And the more you poured into it, the more you got back from it - he
William Finnegan
#57. You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.
William Finnegan
#58. The strongest words can be said in the softest voices and still be resonant.
Erin Finnegan
#59. You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.
Christian Finnegan
#60. I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.
William Finnegan
#61. Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.
Christian Finnegan
#62. Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.
Christian Finnegan
#63. Actually," Finn said, sniffing, "I was too good for you. I've ruined you for all other men." "Hardly. I've had longer, deeper, more meaningful relationships with cheeseburgers than I did with you." "Yes, but at least I didn't go straight to your ass," he said in a smug, superior tone.
Jennifer Estep
#64. I haven't had a drink in twelve days and I've gotta say, I'm pretty shocked at how boring people are.
Christian Finnegan
#65. Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
William Finnegan
#66. For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.
William Finnegan
#68. Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.
William Finnegan
#70. If think the pig was terrified because he was fully aware that after segment he was going to be fed to Al Roker.
Christian Finnegan
#71. Do me a favor, guys. Don't drink so much that you become the guy that goes into the bathroom and moans while taking a leak. See, the women in the room, they might not know what we're talking about; every dude knows.
Christian Finnegan
#72. Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.
Christian Finnegan
#73. Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.
James Joyce
#74. Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That's what I'm always telling myself, anyway - write while the surf's down!
William Finnegan
#75. You rarely hear anyone use the word pancreas in a not-horrible context.
Christian Finnegan
#76. I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.
Christian Finnegan
#77. The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.
Christian Finnegan
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