Quotes About Irish Storytelling

#1. [When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work, whatever. So, I go there because I want to be there. I want to do this. That helps a lot.

Vanessa Paradis

#2. A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. Our people" have functioned in this country for nearly a century as political weapons, the trump card up the enemies' sleeve; anything promised Negroes at election time is also a threat leveled at the opposition; in the struggle for mastery the Negro is the pawn.

James Baldwin

#4. that had ended years ago; some as far back as

Ann Walker

#5. Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

Paul Gitwaza

#6. The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

Rashers Tierney

#7. Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

William Feather

#8. Despite her love of pineapple on pizza, Lark was perfection. I felt like a love starved moth drawn to the light of her smile.

Bijou Hunter

#9. For all their reputation for chattiness and storytelling, the Irish I knew were so skillful with words there was sometimes no need for them at all.

Camille DeAngelis

#10. The alien girl - she called herself Dorothy - was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying.

Gregory Maguire