C.E. Murphy Quotes

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.

If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

If anything can go wrong, it will.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

I’ve never done a film for the money

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.