Irish Quotes
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
Lara Flynn Boyle
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
Samantha Power
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I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
Lenny Abrahamson
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
Oliver St. John
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
Ian Paisley
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Caroline Corr
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
Lady Gregory
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.
Preston Sturges
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My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
Matthew McConaughey
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Kate Adie
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You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
Bonnie Tyler
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I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.
JoJo
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There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.
John Collison
