Skibbereen Quotes

#1. Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Gregory Maguire

#2. As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland took a stand: 'We give this solemn warning to Kaiser Wilhelm: The Skibbereen Eagle has its eye on you.

Robert Hutton

#3. Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

Craig Groeschel

#4. As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

David Eagleman

#5. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Evan Hunter

#6. The old woman's face was wreathed in smiles.

Luo Guanzhong

#7. I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

Tony Robbins

#8. A lot of people don't know I am always thisfuckingclose to doing some crazy shit.

Amy Poehler

#9. Throughout the island they wear the same sort of clothes, without any other distinction except what is necessary to distinguish the two sexes and the married and unmarried.

Thomas More

#10. Unstructured chat with such friends has helped me understand Mrs Thatcher, the woman. (page xxvi)

Charles Moore

#11. My father..." He paused painfully, his voice unsteady. "...thought he was drinking the nectar of the gods, but it turned out to be poison. He learned that men don't need gods after all; it's the gods who need men. That's what killed my father.

Gen LaGreca

#12. There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

Amanda Stevens

#13. I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

Brie Larson

#14. Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

John Maynard Keynes