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

• The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Women

• Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Money
  • May
  • Truth

• We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Why
  • Action
  • Hotel

• In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • Great
  • Future
  • Culture

• 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