Jerome Flynn Quotes

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Jerome Flynn

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • May
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Want

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • World
  • Career
  • Thought

• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • House
  • Sometimes

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Dream

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• Music is how you feel.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • You
  • Feel

• I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Man

• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Nothing

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Done
  • Art

• When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Fear

• A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

  

  Annie Besant

• History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • History
  • Picture

• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Mother
  • Opinion

• Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • English

• The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Men
  • Party
  • Helping

• God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."

  

  William Morris
  • Lying
  • Stress
  • Comfort

• I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

  

  Jerome Flynn