No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.