Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
JEREMY IRVINE The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-...
JEREMY IRVINE I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing...
JEREMY IRVINE When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first nove...
IRVINE WELSH We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. W...
IRVINE WELSH I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
IRVINE WELSH You can't lie to your soul.
IRVINE WELSH But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for t...
IRVINE WELSH God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
ROBERT IRVINE Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choo...
IRVINE WELSH Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small p...
ROBERT IRVINE I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
IRVINE WELSH I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business...
IRVINE WELSH I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me fin...
IRVINE WELSH People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or the...
IRVINE WELSH I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so ...
IRVINE WELSH I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excit...
IRVINE WELSH It has been well documented that Hugh has withdrawn from the interview process and it will be a stra...
ANDY IRVINE It will be a straight choice between Frank and Steve,
ANDY IRVINE In my opinion, Aberdeen would give the team the strongest chance of succeeding.
ANDY IRVINE It is a big city with a strong rugby following, as we saw in May at Pittodrie,
ANDY IRVINE It has been well documented that Hugh Campbell, the Glasgow coach, has withdrawn from the interview ...
ANDY IRVINE Both interviewed extremely well and we will meet again to discuss the next step.
ANDY IRVINE He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the...
ANDY IRVINE He's (McKie) not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the ...
ANDY IRVINE Alan will work hand in hand with the new chief executive and they, with assistance from the other di...
ANDY IRVINE Scotland ended last season on a high and the team were playing with a smile on their faces,
ANDY IRVINE Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...
IRVINE WELSH I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic...
IRVINE WELSH We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can o...
IRVINE WELSH Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes,...
IRVINE WELSH In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I ca...
IRVINE WELSH I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fo...
ROBERT IRVINE Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it tha...
IRVINE WELSH You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-...
IRVINE WELSH Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but...
IRVINE WELSH The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world...
IRVINE WELSH Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
IRVINE WELSH I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various band...
IRVINE WELSH You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an i...
IRVINE ROBBINS For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. M...
IRVINE WELSH I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Gene...
IRVINE WELSH I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you ...
IRVINE WELSH Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
IRVINE WELSH Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
IRVINE WELSH I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal F...
ROBERT IRVINE Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or s...
IRVINE WELSH It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather...
IRVINE WELSH It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and ico...
IRVINE WELSH Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
IRVINE WELSH We are feeling good about ourselves again.
ALAN IRVINE I thought Per did really well. He has hardly trained since the Aston Villa game when he was injured.
ALAN IRVINE We changed our shape and that helped us relieve the pressure.
ALAN IRVINE I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about th...
IRVINE WELSH In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' ma...
IRVINE WELSH There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bu...
IRVINE WELSH There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so...
IRVINE WELSH I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Po...
IRVINE WELSH take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
IRVINE WELSH There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an E...
IRVINE WELSH Okay. I've got three. Which one would you like to speak to first?
EDDIE IRVINE There are God's ideals, and then there is common sense.
ANDREW IRVINE I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went ...
IRVINE WELSH N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, ...
IRVINE WELSH This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
IRVINE WELSH There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
IRVINE WELSH There are other noteworthy characteristics of this rock art style: Anthropomorphs without headdresse...
AMY IRVINE When I explain it to people I tell them the decathlon is like running a marathon. You really can't g...
TROY IRVINE Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...
IRVINE WELSH I don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are musi...
IRVINE WELSH I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know...
IRVINE WELSH The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when...
IRVINE WELSH It was an amazing time. We were students. We went from barely able to pay the rent to betting severa...
DAVID IRVINE What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
IRVINE WELSH When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousne...
IRVINE WELSH When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid &poun...
IRVINE WELSH It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as suc...
IRVINE WELSH Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot ...
IRVINE WELSH You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are th...
IRVINE WELSH If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always g...
IRVINE WELSH Soldiers became torturers because their chain of command chose to look the other way.
DAVID IRVINE It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...
IRVINE WELSH adjourn for another beer. We
IRVINE WELSH É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa histó...
IRVINE WELSH Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade...
IRVINE WELSH E por aí vão, metidos nessa batalha, testando forças e afirmando um ao outro que não discordam f...
IRVINE WELSH It’s a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oot fae the insi...
IRVINE WELSH Ye see, Rab, it’s due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our...
IRVINE WELSH If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the worl...
IRVINE WELSH Now I’ll be left alone, and that’s all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone whi...
IRVINE WELSH it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.
IRVINE WELSH Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find ...
IRVINE WELSH He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something li...
IRVINE WELSH Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but s...
IRVINE WELSH ...we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked ov...
IRVINE WELSH It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
IRVINE WELSH Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our s...
IRVINE WELSH I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of th...
IRVINE WELSH But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...
IRVINE WELSH Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...
IRVINE WELSH I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of th...
IRVINE WELSH You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.
IRVINE WELSH 'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you fin...
IRVINE WELSH I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, ...
IRVINE WELSH The Hi-Lo as a balanced count is one of the easiest out there. With a more complex count, maybe you ...
DAVID IRVINE The growth outlook relative to developed markets is still in tact. We believe in the consumer story ...
JOANNE IRVINE I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometim...
IRVINE WELSH It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
IRVINE WELSH We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think...
IRVINE WELSH Clell, Gillman and I are joined by the wee chinky bird with the toff's English-Yank accent. It keeps...
IRVINE WELSH Le regole son quelle.
IRVINE WELSH As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
IRVINE WELSH Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd w...
IRVINE WELSH The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want...
IRVINE WELSH The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...
IRVINE WELSH That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, ...
IRVINE WELSH Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
IRVINE WELSH Are you asking me or telling me?
IRVINE WELSH Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...
IRVINE WELSH How did it make you feel?
IRVINE WELSH All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it was...
IRVINE WELSH Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what el...
IRVINE WELSH I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
IRVINE WELSH Same rules apply.
IRVINE WELSH You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
IRVINE WELSH The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now...
EDDIE IRVINE The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now...
EDDIE IRVINE Michael isn't getting any slower.
EDDIE IRVINE Jenson has been beaten by all of them apart from Takuma Sato and Jacques Villeneuve .
EDDIE IRVINE McLaren have a reliability problem, ... but an aggressive style of driving can also lead to faults.
EDDIE IRVINE The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael...
EDDIE IRVINE There's no way Ferrari made a car that bad.
EDDIE IRVINE The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Thing...
EDDIE IRVINE It's annoying when you're trying to have dinner with your friends, and people come over constantly a...
EDDIE IRVINE If there's anybody who can get a party going it's this guy.
HAZEL IRVINE Let me fill you in on the other results so far... there are no other results so far, only matches in...
HAZEL IRVINE I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t...
IRVINE WELSH The Middle East is the area where we're most concerned. There has been a lot of speculation in these...
JOANNE IRVINE The outlook for global emerging markets is very positive. The fundamentals have never been so strong...
JOANNE IRVINE Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough
IRVINE WELSH The switching incident at (University of Virginia) hospital has been confirmed by DNA testing.
MICHAEL IRVINE Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos...
IRVINE WELSH Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside...
IRVINE WELSH ran as hard as I could.
JOHN IRVINE Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
JEREMY GILLEY Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
JEREMY CORBYN The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
JEREMY BENTHAM When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found g...
JEREMY SISTO It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
JEREMY BENTHAM I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and go...
JEREMY CLARKSON The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most ico...
JEREMY SCOTT I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all thei...
JEREMY LIN Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final a...
JEREMY RIFKIN Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on...
JEREMY IRONS I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the l...
JEREMY HUNT There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Me...
JEREMY IRONS Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JEREMY SCHWARTZ Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do ...
JEREMY COLLIER Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of '...
JEREMY ALLAIRE Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died ...
JEREMY CORBYN What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA te...
JEREMY RIFKIN What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies t...
JEREMY RIFKIN There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerless...
JEREMY STOPPELMAN What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rig...
JEREMY CORBYN I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romant...
JEREMY RENNER The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a sh...
JEREMY CLARKSON The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a sh...
JEREMY CLARKSON We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, the...
JEREMY IRONS Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nig...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilt...
JEREMY TAYLOR Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing e...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Relieve...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Love is careful...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nig...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing w...
JEREMY TAYLOR I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
JEREMY TAYLOR A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
JEREMY TAYLOR He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath mor...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done bette...
JEREMY LIN I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film le...
JEREMY IRONS He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more g...
JEREMY TAYLOR There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easil...
JEREMY SISTO It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive i...
JEREMY TAYLOR No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulan...
JEREMY TAYLOR No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire mo...
TAYLOR JEREMY [A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created....At a s...
JEREMY CLARKSON Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gi...
JEREMY COLLIER As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis...
JEREMY COLLIER The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of ri...
JEREMY BENTHAM Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
JEREMY IRONS True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
JEREMY COLLIER What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
JEREMY TAYLOR Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
JEREMY TAYLOR