John Millington Synge Quotes

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

John Millington Synge

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• I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

  

  Patina Miller
  • City
  • Sister
  • Busy

• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

  

  Kate Williams
  • Son
  • Sister
  • Kings

• I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Live
  • Family
  • City

• If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

  

  Samantha Power
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Ways

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dad

• I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Sister
  • Used
  • Marry

• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Family
  • Together
  • Dad

• I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Inspiration
  • Literature
  • Books

• My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Sister
  • Wedding

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • She
  • Dream

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Sister

• When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

  

  Lucy Punch
  • Party
  • Sister
  • Ugly

• I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Great
  • Faith

• Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Game
  • Nothing
  • Impossible

• The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Single
  • Progress

• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  

  John Millington Synge
  • Sister