Kevin Myers famous quotes

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.
-- Kevin Myers

#Team #Humour

I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.
-- Kevin Myers

#Book #People #Language

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.
-- Kevin Myers

#Humorous #Waiting #Selfless

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.
-- Kevin Myers

#Kids #People #Tools

The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.
-- Kevin Myers

#War #People #Political

Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.
-- Kevin Myers

#Country #War #Heart

You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!
-- Kevin Myers

#Failing

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.
-- Kevin Myers

#Wings #Doubt #Born

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.
-- Kevin Myers

#Thinking #Problem

The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature....
-- Kevin Myers

#Thinking #Skills #Two

Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.
-- Kevin Myers

#Doe #Beats #Should

No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!
-- Kevin Myers

#Fighting #Men #Succeed

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.
-- Kevin Myers

#Night #Light #Way

A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.
-- Kevin Myers

#Hollywood #Mutation #Popcorn