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Irvine Welsh Quotes

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Irvine Welsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 27, 1961

Topics

Great People Me Book Story Enough

I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it.

Jessica Jung

Love Never Give Up Courage You Go

I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.'

John Carpenter

Work Impossible Hands You Situation

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

John Cassavetes

Man Think Worst Interest Fellow Man

It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

Maya Hawke

Alone Time Parents Stand Feel You

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

Mayim Bialik

School Parents College Immigrants Go

I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'm not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.

Matt Kuchar

People Me Down Will Whatever Head

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

Steve Erickson

Cool Picture Anything Motion Than

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Robert Dallek

Opening Line See I See China Soviet

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

Tom DeLonge

Brain Energy Looks Say Matter Human

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach

Traffic Extra Mile Along Extra Mile

Even if I'm not vocally my best, if I have a head cold, as an actor, I cannot give anything less than my very, very best. There's nowhere to hide!

Ruthie Ann Miles

Best Cold Hide Actor Head Anything

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Lucas Till

First Crush Call Number Sheet