Irvine Welsh Quotes

I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

Irvine Welsh

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• We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Accept

• I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Man
  • Sweet
  • Sorry

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Ocean

• I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Different
  • Song
  • Better

• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Believe
  • War
  • Failure

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Words
  • Band
  • Like

• I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Moon
  • Tomorrow

• To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Moment
  • Sound
  • Capture

• Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Me
  • Singing

• My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Perfect

• We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Up
  • World
  • Party

• I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Hope

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular