Irvine Welsh Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
-
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
-
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
-
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
-
I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
-
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
-
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
-
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
-
I try to photobomb as much as possible.
-
I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
-
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
-
I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
-
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
-
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
-
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
-
In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
-
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
-
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
-
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
-
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
-
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
