Quotes by irish authors

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz. Imelda May

Time Big Mad Had Go Big Time Used Phase

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?' Imelda May

Time Me You Thought Black Face Long Pour Looking Baby Back Out Tried Powder Like Look Looked House Goth Wonder Lips Did Anyone While Then Paint Cool Why Last

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. Imelda May

Love Myself You Back About Inspiration He Knew True Idea Like Know Wrote Him Talking Always Ernest Hemingway Fronts Certain Certain Things Hemingway Comparing Keep Things

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second. Imelda May

Great You Brilliant Will Band Tops Tell Open Come Audience Am Audiences Doing Very Irish Close Get American American Audiences Just Spanish Nowhere Second

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine. Imelda May

Love Music You Related Countries Combine Over Came Rockabilly Hear Hand Ireland Very Irish America Closely Bluegrass Different Different Countries

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means. Imelda May

Men Hates Feminist Any Means

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too. Imelda May

Saying Home Women Too Bit Out More Pursue Equal Going Little Little Bit Should Certainly Workplace Pan Careers

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them. Imelda May

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. Iris Murdoch

Love Love Is Worth Entirely No Love Calls Without Frivolous Even Base

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch

Good Matter Temperament End Just Being In The End

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch

You Philosophy Snail Pace Moving

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch

Needs Man Women Men Every Thrilling Quiet Man Needs Every Man Two

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. Iris Murdoch

Truth Truth Is Moral Brown Moralistic Generic Like Well Spectrum

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Iris Murdoch

Seriously Taken Affairs Human Human Affairs Serious

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Iris Murdoch

Relationship Supplied Comfort Substitute Utterly

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. Iris Murdoch

Life Out Never Had He Got Intellectual Get Muddle Early

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Iris Murdoch

Emotions Could Sort Disciplined Said Literature Certain Technique