Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 20)

"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"I can speak Esperanto like a native"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"Playing live if the thing I love doing best"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Music can't change the world"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

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