Dermot Healy Quotes

I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.

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• Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Beautiful
  • Cool
  • Selection

• Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Travel

• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Humanity

• I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Done
  • Success

• Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so straight-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Someone
  • Cards

• We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • Country
  • Think

• I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Want
  • Career
  • Beginning

• You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Night
  • Excuses

• Could one die from boredom, she wondered? From complete, oppressive, crushing, unmitigated boredom, the likes of which made all other boredom seem like ecstasy’s sweet thrilling embrace? And in such a case, if one happened to have a life insurance policy, would it pay?

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Life
  • She
  • Die

• La presse est une bouche forcée d'être toujours ouverte et de parler toujours. De là vient qu'elle dit mille fois qu'elle n'a rien à dire.

  

  Alfred de Vigny

• As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

  

  John Adams
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Marriage

• The people who control culture in China have no culture.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Culture
  • Control

• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Word
  • Paradise
  • Steps

• I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Good
  • Past

• It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Good
  • Together

• My sisters and I are very hands-on with our collections. I am really passionate about kids' clothes.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Kids

• It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Death
  • Revolution
  • Delight

• I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.

  

  Dermot Healy