Brendan Quotes

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

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

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Live life to the fullest. Follow your dreams - don't let anything stop you.

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Parody is homage gone sour.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.