"Religion dies hard in the Irish."

-- Katharine Tynan

#Dies Quotes #Ireland Quotes #Hard Quotes

“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.”
“I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.”
“Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.”
“Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.”
“There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues”
“Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.”
“I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.”

Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.”

Source : "10 things every traveler should do" by Pico Iyer, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2009.

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