J.V. Cunningham Quotes

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

Get it out of your historic head.

I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.

I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Arsenal's defence will be a worry going forward

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

Please, God, send me something to adore.

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.

Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities