"The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth."

-- James Connolly

#Apology Quotes #Literature Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2017
“I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.”
“The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.”
“I just wish I could understand my father.”
“The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.”

Source : John Mortimer (1994). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”, Viking Press
“The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.”
“A man's only as old as the woman he feels.”
“To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.”

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