Irvine Welsh Quotes

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?

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• Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Said

• It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Important
  • Home
  • American

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Neighbor

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Responsibility
  • Identity

• After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • School
  • Fight
  • Pay

• We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Spiritual
  • Natural
  • Fact

• I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Knowledge
  • Religious
  • Analyze

• Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Faith

• I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Ocean
  • Waves

• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Pain
  • Athlete

• The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Know
  • Anger

• Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Help

• Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Good
  • Humor
  • Written

• If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Bitter
  • Taste
  • Nervous

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Door

• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men

• I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

  

  Jennifer Morrison
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Black

• Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?

  

  Irvine Welsh