J. W. N. Sullivan Quotes

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.

Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it.” Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. “I put him at the top of the list.

It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

Stealing swords,” Royce muttered mostly to himself. “Okay, let’s take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start cursing.

And now she has you seizing control of my army.” “Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s.” “So did he.

For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb...

My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

Always make your future bigger than your past.

See, that’s the difference, ” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

It was a trap after all, ” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle

Faith is a strange creature, ” Schuster said. “Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies away, sometimes for years, only to return again, stronger than ever.

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore.

And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

There always seemed to be a better way, except when it came to people. Once broken, people couldn't be repaired.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.