Dylan Moran Quotes

On euphemisms for homosexuals.

Dylan Moran

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• I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Wish
  • Sin
  • I Wish

• I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • You
  • Create
  • Heels

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Heaven

• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Laughter
  • Celebration

• That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Day

• The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Art
  • War
  • Simple

• The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• 'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Great
  • Live
  • Heart

• Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Moral

• You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Father
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• There really isn't a formula for success.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Success

• We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

  

  Bernice King
  • Violence

• There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

• I feel pretty good about having an experienced guy like John back there. He's been through some battles before, and we'll need him to lead us through some more battles when we start our season. I'm counting on John to do some good things for us and get us prepared.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Lead
  • Experienced
  • Battles

• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Holocaust

• I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre.

  

  Chris Young
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Today
  • Progress

• On euphemisms for homosexuals.

  

  Dylan Moran