Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 70

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
Emma Donoghue
I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Orion brightened. "I have an idea.""Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained."Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.
Eoin Colfer
I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
Derek Landy
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.
Eoin Colfer
Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!
Eoin Colfer
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
Eoin Colfer
That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.
Eoin Colfer
It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -
Derek Landy
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.
Eoin Colfer
We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
Eoin Colfer
Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.
Eoin Colfer
I don't like lollipops.
Eoin Colfer
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Who are you?" he asked.I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.
Eoin Colfer
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
George Bernard Shaw
Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed."Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs.""Really?""Oh, yes."She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?""They just are.""In what way?""In a magicky way."She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?""Not really.
Derek Landy
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder
Eoin Colfer
No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.
Eoin Colfer
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.
Derek Landy
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.
Derek Landy
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.
Eoin Colfer
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
Eoin Colfer
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Eoin Colfer
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
Cecelia Ahern
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Anne McCaffrey
Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared
Cecelia Ahern
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
Hugo Hamilton
You don't know, oh, ohYou don't know you're beautiful.
One Direction
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard Shaw
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.
John Connolly
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
Laurence Sterne
Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars
Cecelia Ahern
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
John Anster
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
Cecelia Ahern
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.
Cecelia Ahern
You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.
Darren Shan
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.
Cecelia Ahern
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.
Derek Landy
at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.
Cecelia Ahern
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mary Harris Jones