Ian Paisley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
-
I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
-
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
-
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
-
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
-
With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.
-
I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.
-
I had a period without acting work, and I took a job as a cocktail server. In 'Stick Fly,' my character has to carry a tray, and I knew how to do it because of the job.
-
I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.
-
Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.
-
Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
-
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
-
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
-
I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.
-
Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
-
Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.
-
The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.
-
Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
-
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
-
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
-
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
-
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
-
There is a finger pointing tonight at IRA-Sinn Fein.
