I Quotes
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“Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.”
“Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.”
“Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.”
“Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"
Stuart closed his eyes.
"No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.
"Don't au contraire me," said Irene.
But it was too late. He had.”
Source: Sunshine on Scotland Street
“Irene made a private mental resolution that if she ever became a queen, her throne would incorporate a cushion. Also a convenient bookcase.”
Source: The Lost Plot
“Irene mai avea o banuiala: ca-si tinea in cap dorul de-acasa mic, facut ghem,ca nu cumva sa-l recunoasca. Ca atunci cand aparea, il reprima.Si ca, pentru a-si sufoca simturile,aseza pe ele cladiri intregi din gandurile ei.”
Source: Călătorie într-un picior
“Irene took a sip of coffee. “Ahhh!” she said, almost involuntarily. “I really, really needed that.” She turned back to Lucinda. “All right, tell me about your father. Your earthly father.”
“I have no father anymore,” said Lucinda. “He has sinned, grievously he has sinned. He has consorted with demons, and surely the Lord will send him down to perdition.”
“What the hell does that mean?” asked Diana.
“Hush,” said Mary. “You haven’t even finished what’s on your plate. Are you Diana, or some sort of doppelgänger? Because the Diana I know doesn’t leave food uneaten.”
“Go to hell,” said Diana, but she said it under her breath and stuffed her mouth with a poppy-seed roll.”
Source: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
“Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.”
“Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.”
“Irgend jemand schien den Entschluß gefaßt zu haben, Gottes Worte mit der Schere zu berichtigen”
Source: Night Shift
“Irgendetwas arbeitete 46 Jahre in seinem Kopf. Er sprang immer wieder in der Zeit hin und her, reflektierte sich und sein Leben, unternahm eine so haarsträubende Zeitreise, die durch sein gesamtes Leben führen sollte und ihn, an dessen Ende, mit einer schrecklichen Wahrheit konfrontierte.”
Source: SYNCHRONICITY (Die letzte Verschwörung): Finis Temporis 1
“Irgendwann fiel zum ersten Mal das scheinheilige Wort vom Totalitarismus, das einem nicht nur half, dem gefährlichen Begriff Faschismus, an dem man ja ausgiebig beteiligt gewesen war, aus dem Wege zu gehen, sondern auch jenes Gesellschaftssystem, das der Todfeind des Faschismus gewesen war, bei seinem Zusammenbruch die Hauptrolle gespielt und im Kampf die schwersten Opfer gebracht hatte, eben diesem Faschismus an die Seite zu rücken, ja, man hatte, wenn man es recht bedachte, bereits an der Spitze seiner SS-Panzergrenadiere die Hälfte des Totalitarismus bekämpft und durfte sich so mit Fug und Recht einen Freiheitskämpfer nennen.”
Source: In den Kämpfen dieser Zeit
“Irgendwann ist der Spaß vorbei, und wenn man die Finsternis auf sich zukriechen sieht, hält man sich an allem fest, was hell und glücklich und gut war, als würde das Leben davon abhängen.”
Source: Joyland
“Irgendwer muss ja schuld sein.”
Source: Die Seiten der Welt
“Irie serves me three ramens, including a bowl made with a rich dashi and head-on shrimp and another studded with spicy ground pork and wilted spinach and lashed with chili oil. Both are exceptionally delicious, sophisticated creations, but it's his interpretation of tonkotsu that leaves me muttering softly to myself. The noodles are firm and chewy, the roast pork is striped with soft deposits of warm fat, and the toppings- white curls of shredded spring onion, chewy strips of bamboo, a perfect square of toasted seaweed- are skillfully applied. Here it is the combination of tare, the culmination of years of careful tinkering, and broth, made from whole pig heads and knots of ginger, that defies the laws of tonkotsu: a soup with the savory, meaty intensity of a broth made from a thousand pigs that's light enough to leave you wanting more. And more. And more.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“Irina Paulova tenía más ganas de matar que nunca”
Source: Clandestina
“Irina wants to fly into the storm,” the gel hissed. “Told us she would. I sent for help. She made a weird sort of scream. Like an animal or a great bird.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“Irini nodded again as she gazed off into the trees. “Strange times,” she said. “Times of change.”
“Good or bad?” he asked.
“Change is neither good nor bad, my champion.” She smiled her wolfish smile. “It is a matter of who takes advantage of the chaos. Idle hunters starve, as you know.”
Source: The Curse of Balar
“Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.”
“Iris and I will eat at a skeezy yakitori joint and enjoy char-grilled chicken parts on a stick. We'll go to an eel restaurant and eat several courses of eel, my favorite fish. Iris's favorite is mackerel, saba no shioyaki, tearing off fatty bits with our chopsticks. We will eat our weight in rice... we'll have breakfast at Tsukiji, the world's largest fish market. And we'll eat plenty of sushi from a conveyor belt.”
Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
“Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.”
“Iris gasped. Dyemore's mouth burned. Almost his entire weight had sagged against her- and he wasn't a small man- but it was the kiss that most startled her.
He...
She could taste him, the wine he must've drunk this morning, the scent of smoke in his hair, drifting about her face, the heat rolling off him in thick waves. He was so overwhelmingly large, so excruciatingly masculine.
She'd been married. She'd been kissed before- of course she had- but it hadn't been like this.
Nothing like this.
It was as if everything that made her female was being awakened and called forth by everything male in him.”
Source: Duke of Desire
“Iris ha gli occhi lucidi mentre mi elenca i motivi per cui mi vuole bene, ha compilato una lista – in basso a destra – dice che sono intelligente, affidabile, fedele e coraggiosa.
Proprio l’ultima parola mi colpisce come sputo sulla fronte, rende il nostro legame nullo, le mie confessioni silenzi. Io non voglio essere nessuna di queste cose, non voglio aggettivi per me, non voglio lacrime, non voglio feste o cartelloni: le mie parentesi quadre sono vuote, non ho radici latine, sanscrite, francesi, non ho prefissi o suffissi, sono una definizione mancata.”
Source: L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce
“Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in the way two people negotiate their own personal amalgam of companionship and sex, compromise and disappointment, lust and tenderness, trust and lies. The challenge for the rest of us is to do the same.”
“Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls”; they learn not to get themselves behind an action, exhibiting what she calls “inhibited intentionality.” She describes how girls often “lack confidence in their capacity to do what needs to be done.” She notes, “We decide beforehand—usually mistakenly—that the task is beyond us and thus give it less than our full effort.”Decisions we make about our capacities are not always our own. We receive messages all the time that tell us who can do what (and who cannot). If you are told you can’t do it, that girls can’t do it, you might doubt whether you can do it; you might not put all of yourself into it. And then when you don’t manage it, you don’t pull it off, the judgment that you are not capable is confirmed. Gender norms sometimes work through a reversal of sequence: we assume we do it because we can, or don’t because we can’t, but often we can do it because we do it, or we can’t because we don’t. Over time, girls learn to inhabit their bodies with less confidence, assuming what they cannot do as a restriction of a horizon of possibility.”
Source: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
“Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.”
“Iris pssp-pssped and Chéri's marmalade head popped up in slow-blinking wakefulness from a large wicker basket on the living room floor. She found them both curled up inside, Chéri, the orange tabby boy, and Jasmine, a deaf white female, still asleep, the two of them forming a Creamsicle yin and yang. Jasmine felt her brother's movement, and soon both were yawning and stretching, emerging from the basket like pulled taffy.”
Source: Full Bloom
“Iris's favorite item at Tenta is anago, sea eel. Unlike its freshwater cousin unagi, anago is neither endangered nor expensive. A whole anago at Tenta is about $7.50. I ordered one, and the chef pulled a live eel out of a bucket. It wriggled like, well, an eel. Iris screamed as water droplets flew toward us. The chef managed to wrestle the unruly thing into the sink and knocked it unconscious before driving a spike into its head and filleting it. He unzipped two fillets in seconds. A Provençal saying holds that a fish lives in water and dies in oil; in the world of tempura, a fish can go from watery cradle to oily grave in ten seconds.
Iris loved fried eel meat, dipped in salt, but this is not her favorite part of the anago. After filleting the eel, the chef takes its backbone- hone in Japanese- ties it in a simple overhand knot, and tosses it into the frying oil. "Hone," he says, presenting it to Iris, who considers it the ultimate in crispy snack food- and this is a kid who considers taco-flavored Doritos a work of genius (OK, so do I).”
Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
“Iris Whitney, a former showgirl that frequented Malachy’s bar on Third Avenue, became my friend with a story. The same year that I had graduated from High School, she had been frolicking with John Garfield in her two room Gramercy Park apartment. On May 21, 1952 Garfield was found dead of a heart attack, in her bed. When I first met Iris I didn’t know anything about this but even if I had, all I can say is that I enjoyed her company and survived the experience. Of course she denied having been intimate with the actor the night that he died and added that John had not been feeling well. When the police arrived and had to break the door down, her explanation was that she thought that they were newspaper men.
Several years later, in Connecticut, I had the occasion to talk about old times and some of these events, to the popular stage and screen actor Byron Barr better known as “Gig Young.” Sitting with my wife Ursula and Young at the open bar alongside the Candlewood Theatre, in New Fairfield during the summer of 1978, everything seemed normal. Coincidentally I also knew his former wife Elizabeth Montgomery who was married to him from 1956 to 1963, since she was my neighbor living on the nearby Cushman road in Patterson New York,.
On October 19, 1978, two months after seeing Young, I read that he had shot his wife Kim Schmidt and committed suicide only three weeks after their marriage. Apparently Young had shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself. They were both found dead in their Manhattan apartment but the police never established a motive for the murder-suicide. I knew that he liked to drink and this may have been a part of the problem, but he always seemed congenial and there was no hint that it would ever come to this.”
“Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.”
“Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges”
“Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.”
“Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.”
“Irish as a Paddy's pig.”
“Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.”
“Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.”
“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.”
“Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.”
“Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.”
“Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.”
Source: Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish
“Irish improves a poet.”
Source: MxT
“Irish is a leprechaun language.”
“Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work.”
“Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.”
“Irish luck, aye, that I’ve got.
A four-leaf clover—aye, that too.
I’ll tell ye, lassie, what I’ve not,
A lucky Irish kiss from you!”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.”
“Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.”
“Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.”
“Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.”
“Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.”
Source: Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences