Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • People
  • Dirty
  • Eating

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Love
  • Novel
  • Thanked

• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Look
  • Mirror
  • Angel

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Angel

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • She
  • Funny
  • Day

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Dark
  • Creativity
  • Angel

• I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Irish

• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Beautiful
  • Car
  • Green

• Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Help
  • Choose
  • Things Happen

• Blown about with every wind of criticism.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wind
  • Criticism

• I completely accept, respect, and support Caitlyn, but I must admit, I sometimes miss Bruce.

  

  Linda Thompson
  • Respect
  • Support

• You need to challenge your body in different ways, but I think the best way is to go for a run and stretch out your body.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Different
  • Challenge

• When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

  

  Luke Hemsworth

• Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • Dirty
  • Angel
  • Irish