Eavan Boland Quotes
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
Quotes to Explore
-
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
-
Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
-
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
-
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
-
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
-
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
-
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
-
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
-
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
-
I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
-
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
-
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
-
But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.
-
I am not in the market to create jobs, build an empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.
-
Marx said that he had stood Hegel on his head; often Mr. Horace Gregory has simply stood Pollyana on her head.
-
One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
-
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
-
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
