Best Guinness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!”

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Book:F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

Source: F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.”

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Author:Ricky Hatton

“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.”

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Author:Steve Coppell

“Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.”

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Author:Ashley Madekwe

“I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.”

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Author:David Hasselhoff

“President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.”

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Author:Martin Bashir

“St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.”

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Author:Lewis Black

“At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.”

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Author:Alan Dale

“f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!”

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Author:Alan Bennett

“Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the one actor attempting to give a real performance in this mess.”

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Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.”

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Author:Roger Waters

“L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!”

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Author:Donald Glover

“I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.”

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Author:Nick Vujicic

“What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue of what they were doing. The young guy was a complete loss, absolutely couldn't act his way out of a bag, but Alec Guinness carried that movie. He was such a class act that it elevated the film to be a joy to watch.”

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Author:David Crosby

“If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it's fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them, the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.”

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Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.”

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Author:Stephen Lang

“Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film”

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Author:Sean Connery

“I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.”

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Author:Jerome Bettis

“I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.”

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Author:Ian Botham

“Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.”

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Author:Clint Catalyst

“I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.”

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Author:Mark Hamill

“One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.”

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Author:Bob Brown

“Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.”

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Author:Matthew McGrory

“I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.”

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Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.”

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Author:Peter O'Toole

“I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.”

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Author:Robbie Williams

“I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.”

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Author:Carine Roitfeld

“People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.”

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Author:Jasmine Guinness

“Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?”

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Book:Fly Leaves

Source: Fly Leaves

“You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.”

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Author:Puff Daddy

“I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.”

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Author:Mark Hamill

“The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.”

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Author:Fran Kranz

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