Dolores O'Riordan Quotes
Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
-
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
-
By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
-
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
-
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
-
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
-
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
-
I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
-
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
-
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
-
Greetings and death to our enemies.
-
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
-
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
-
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
-
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
-
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
-
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
-
When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.
-
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
-
I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
-
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
-
Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.
