Irvine Welsh Quotes

That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark whin he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oot. Nae other cunt gies a fuck so how should ah? Eh?

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• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Used

• My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Looking Forward

• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Long
  • Line

• We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Same

• There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Decision
  • Everything

• How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Describe

• When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Road

• What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Today
  • Past

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • You

• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Service

• I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Back
  • German
  • Train

• When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • School
  • High

• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
  • Place

• I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.

  

  Taliesin

• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • May
  • High

• Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

  

  Emperor Norton
  • Democratic
  • Violation
  • Imprisonment

• American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.

  

  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • Quality
  • Dangerous
  • Potential

• Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • Opinion

• Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.

  

  Vivian Stanshall
  • Party
  • Gay
  • Sausage

• That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark whin he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oot. Nae other cunt gies a fuck so how should ah? Eh?

  

  Irvine Welsh