Tim Pat Coogan Quotes

#1. A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.

Tim Pat Coogan

#3. Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#5. Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.

Tim Pat Coogan

#6. It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Look at me. Now look at yourselves. Now look back at me. I am the man you want to be like.

Tessa Dare

#8. I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

Jay London

#9. The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, lengthened out all the day long.

Neil L. Andersen

#10. I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.

Sefi Atta

#11. Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike

#12. The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."1 - John Boyle O'Reilly

Tim Pat Coogan

#13. Snoopy: So this is the last day of the year. Another complete year gone by and what have I accomplished this year that I haven't accomplished every other year? Nothing! (He smiles.) How consistent can you get?

Charles M. Schulz

#14. The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

William C. Bryant

#15. Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. Constancy is my true nature! I shall never look at another woman for the rest of my days, or rather, I shall look, but they shall be to me like chairs, or tables. Not that I intend to sit, of course, or eat off them, but in the sense that they are but furniture.

Anne Fortier