Fiona Shaw Quotes

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fiona Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 10, 1958

Topics

PeopleDrawingPlayIrishPiano

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Jim Rohn

PhilosophyNeverAnythingImagesPut

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Joel C. Rosenberg

DeathTroubleMoralOutPointUs

Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.

John Lanchester

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If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.

Max Apple

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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Andy Rooney

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I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

Ruben Blades

PeopleSpeakStoryYouKnowNever

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

TimeYouWantHimAlwaysGoing

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

Dick Armey

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It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Christine Keeler

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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

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At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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