Quotes About Irish Mythology

#1. Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.

Gerard Brennan

#2. Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Kate Thompson

#3. My first vocation was dance.

Victoria Abril

#4. If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

Anne Bonny

#5. The Baron was one of Westphalia's most potent aristocrats, since his mansion boasted both a door and windows.

Voltaire

#6. I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

Warren Spector

#7. It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

Alain De Botton

#8. Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

John Dryden

#9. If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground.

Jordan Mechner

#10. I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Laurence Olivier

#11. Setting her jaw, Whitney turned left. "This is a one-way street." He looked around helplessly. "Didn't you see the sign?" "I know it's a one-way street," she muttered and pressed harder on the gas. "It's also the quickest way across town." "Oh, Jesus.

Nora Roberts

#12. It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Prince Andrew

#13. The wonder of all this - God looks at you at your lowest and loves you all the way up to the sky.

Ann Voskamp

#14. I can't pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It's really annoying to every boyfriend I've ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, "God, really?!" But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.

Minnie Driver

#15. Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Lisa Unger

#16. Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#17. I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.

Erik Fosnes Hansen