Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

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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

• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Worst

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Me
  • Racism

• Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Think
  • Me

• 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

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Control
  • Alone
  • Poverty

• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Ice

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

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Irish

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Irish

• I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I like to work spontaneously.

  

  Chaka Khan
  • Work

• I've always thrived under the pressure of the big games. I enjoy that, and there's nothing I get afraid about.

  

  Dele Alli

• There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Memories
  • Revolution

• I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Irish