Brian Friel Quotes

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

Brian Friel

• Troubles
• Real Life
• Irritation
• Pigmentation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Me
  • Care
  • Write

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diversity

• I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Hate
  • Husband

• I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

  

  Anne-Marie

• I'm involved in so many cool and interesting and redeeming things. I'm enjoying every day.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Interesting
  • Cool

• On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.

  

  John Howard
  • Support
  • Party

• Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Long

• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Space
  • Value

• If I didn't end up talking about the things that I care about, I wouldn't be myself. I didn't like the idea that I would be a different person on the internet than I would be in real life. And I see people struggling. I see people who face prejudice and people who feel invisible. And I recognize that I already have a built-in platform that I can utilize so easily to actually do something.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Like
  • Troubles
  • Babies

• Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Troubles
  • Ahead
  • Loom

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Food
  • Drink
  • Full

• Towards the end of those drought years the Department of Primary Industry had discovered that cattle given licks of a mixture of molasses and urea and phosphoric acid maintained health and condition even though the available grazing was extremely poor, and they would ingest materials they would normally ignore, such as wattle and whitewood leaves, and prickly pear.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Years
  • End
  • Department

• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Children
  • Helping
  • Extraordinary

• Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Beginning

• My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Ugly
  • Blood

• There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • True
  • Enemies
  • False

• I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Up
  • Help
  • Makeup

• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Fact
  • Clock

• The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Troubles
  • Real Life
  • Irritation