Conor McPherson Quotes

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

Conor McPherson

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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Social
  • Saying
  • Boring

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Look

• As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Want
  • Present
  • Welcome

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• I'm not a gadget freak.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Freak
  • Gadget

• So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Want
  • New York
  • Tension

• New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

  

  Edmund White
  • New York
  • Group
  • Immigrant

• Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • People
  • Why
  • Credit

• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Day
  • Trust
  • Advice

• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • You
  • Car

• I believe in the jury system.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Jury

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Party
  • Imagination

• If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • God
  • Live
  • Blessed

• Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think Poor girl, thats got to be cold.

  

  Will Eisner
  • Woman
  • Cold
  • Poor

• I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Camera

• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Fault
  • Creature
  • Charming

• If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

  

  Conor McPherson