Quotes About Irish Wakes

#1. This day would bring only one of two possible outcomes: liberty or death. I faced both with a smile on my face. The

Tillie Cole

#2. The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food.

Desi Arnaz

#3. Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system.

Shepard Fairey

#4. The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

John Engler

#5. How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

Sydney J. Harris

#7. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Anonymus Artist

#8. I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

Christine Quinn

#9. Don't follow your dream - lead it!

Gloria Feldt

#10. Before, I was makin' you my business. Things are different once I sleep with a woman, make her come and intend to do it again. Now you just are my business.

Kristen Ashley

#11. If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

Ricky Gervais