Quotes About Influence

I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.

The interference of Iran affects us all.

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.

I think people saw him as someone who did good things for Ireland. If you looked at all the Irish actors in 'Excalibur' alone - Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson - there was a whole gaggle of Irish actors who've gone on to become stars, so Dad was really part of that.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history.

There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city.

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Iron Man is my most favorite human, character, person in the world.

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.