Dublin Quotes - Page 2

• If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

  Ray Bradbury

  Father, Humorous, Said

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• I remember being in Dublin in a café and seeing him [Jack Gleeson] two or three years ago, and he came in - Joffrey[from the Game of Thrones] came in - and I remember being so star-struck. I don't like famous people and I don't really get star-struck. But I remember seeing him and being so impressed that he was walking around. So I really like Joffrey.

  Taika Waititi

  Stars, Games, Two

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I didn’t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didn’t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again I’ll take it out of your hide, and I didn’t say, Oh, honey, wouldn’t you like to? And he didn’t say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I don’t take little girls to my bed, and I didn’t say I wouldn’t go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Growing Up, Bed

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.256, Dell

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• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

  James Joyce

  Doubt, Going Away, Succeed

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

  James Joyce

  Country, Writing, Men

  "A brief survey of the short story part 32: James Joyce" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Morning, Pubs, Purgatory

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• Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

  Louis MacNeice

  Home, Years, Cities

  "The strings are false: an unfinished autobiography".

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• I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.

  Charles Landry

  Educational, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

  Michael Scott

  Taken, Home, Writing

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• I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

  John Banville

  Writing, Light, Climate

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• Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

  Martin McDonagh

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Martin McDonagh, Our New Norman Mailer" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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• Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Kids, Overwhelmed

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• I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

  Harold Prince

  Crazy, Blood, Years

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• My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

  Colin Farrell

  Song, Community, Traditional Music

  "Colin Farrell interview" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 29, 2010.

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• Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Unique

  "Dandelion Mind". Stand-up Comedy Tour, 2010.

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• I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can't even describe that feeling. That's why I like the best - the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

  Conor McGregor

  Rain, Vegas, Car

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.

  Judi Dench

  Mother, Cousin, Sorry

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

  John Boyne

  Years, Events, Environment

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• by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Character, Gossip, Might

  Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.264, University of Georgia Press

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Football, Dying, Finals

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• So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

  James Joyce

  Book, Reading, Three

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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• If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

  Roddy Doyle

  People, Example, Lucky

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• Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
  "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

  Gemma Hussey

  Army, Insulting, Church

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• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  Seamus Heaney

  Home, Circles, House

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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