Quotes About Irishman

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

Then he gave me the best advice of my life. "Listen, sonny boy. An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold on to one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth." SPRING BREAK Heaven's Waiting Room

This is what happens when you send an Irishman to do a Russian's job.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.

I'm still a scarred and surly Irishman.

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

brogue. "Not this fair-skinned Irishman. We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

In the polyglot Upper Peninsula of Michigan calling a man, say, an Irishman is rarely an effort to demean or stigmatize him

I told Myles Bradley quite clearly that I'd been molested. But I'd kept talking. I should have stopped after I'd told him about the man's weight holding me down. I didn't exactly bury the story Ã¢â'¬â€œ my story Ã¢â'¬â€œ but I made it, somehow, an expected part of every Irishman's education. A bit of gas. Not so bad. Part of what we are.

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too far-fetched.

The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial force pumping a million times a day in the rose-pink heart of every true Irishman.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

I am an Irishman, sir. Irish Irish? Yes, sir.

One of them was the usual Irishman who stands by the bar of every pub selling talk for beer, one of the oldest professions.

I'm an Irishman who came up from a small little country, followed his dream, and now I hold the title.