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

• If you can put your hands on the receiver and get to him fast, that messes up everything for them. If I don't put hands on him, he's probably going to beat me on the route.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Up

• Lack of subtlety, that’s how you beat magic.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Magic
  • Beat
  • Subtlety

• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Women
  • Children
  • Today

• You know what gets me? … How everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. I used to be scared shitless if I'd say 'fuck' or 'shit' in public, by accident. Now everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit', 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. Something very big must have happened while we were out of the country.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • Country

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

  

  Conor McPherson