Irvine Welsh Quotes
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.Irvine Welsh
Quotes to Explore
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
B. B. King -
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent -
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster -
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
Saint Patrick
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
Patrick Lencioni -
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
Damien Rice -
One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
Taylor Momsen -
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
Radha Mitchell -
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
Gary Numan
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
Valerie Plame -
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran -
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
Taissa Farmiga -
Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
Gareth Gates
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
Bob Brown -
I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
J. G. Ballard -
What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
Napoleon Hill -
When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.
Jacob deGrom -
And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
Aberjhani -
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
Irvine Welsh