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 Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choo...
IRVINE WELSH 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
IRVINE WELSH 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 Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough
IRVINE WELSH 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 Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
JEREMY IRVINE God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
ROBERT IRVINE Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small p...
ROBERT IRVINE 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 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 You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an i...
IRVINE ROBBINS I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal F...
ROBERT IRVINE 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 actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
JEREMY IRVINE 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 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 It was an amazing time. We were students. We went from barely able to pay the rent to betting severa...
DAVID 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 Soldiers became torturers because their chain of command chose to look the other way.
DAVID IRVINE 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 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 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 The switching incident at (University of Virginia) hospital has been confirmed by DNA testing.
MICHAEL IRVINE ran as hard as I could.
JOHN IRVINE Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.
JOHN WELSH Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
WELSH PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
WELSH PROVERB Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WELSH PROVERB Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not R...
MATT WELSH Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations wit...
MATT WELSH A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
WELSH PROVERB Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet.
WELSH PROVERB The Saxon shits in his breech, The cleanly Briton in the hedge
WELSH PROVERB In the overall process we're still the farthest along. Whether we'll be first or not I can't say. Th...
SCOTT WELSH This was a joyous surprise. He works so hard. This year he's been doing dives he has never done befo...
TIM WELSH We're concerned for two reasons. There could be copycat activity (of the exchange) in other ports an...
CHRIS WELSH This kind of game really shows what we're capable of when we play the way like we know we can. Now w...
CHRIS WELSH I'm going to go ahead and say it, this week is the week. I feel pretty confident in our team, our co...
CHRIS WELSH Honestly, if I hadn't already paid for this semester I would have stayed. There's so much to do.
AYSHIA WELSH Rather than just doing something for myself, I thought I'd do something to help other people.
AYSHIA WELSH We're gutting houses, cleaning up mold, cutting down trees in the way. We're basically doing a deep ...
AYSHIA WELSH To walk into this vast place where these pillars pull you up, it's like wow.
KEITH WELSH This feels absolutely amazing. When it was over I had a girl run up to me and just kiss me on the ch...
CHRIS WELSH Seton Hall has certainly shown that they're moving toward the upper echelon of our league because of...
TIM WELSH Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
WELSH PROVERB Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge brings wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB Of a compliment only a third is meant
WELSH PROVERB Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily
WELSH PROVERB Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise
WELSH PROVERB If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.
MATT WELSH He understands badly who listens badly
WELSH PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's
WELSH PROVERB A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH Without perseverance talent is a barren bed
WELSH PROVERB A lot of this stuff has been tried before, and didn't make it. But who knows? Maybe he will make it.
BOB WELSH I'm Bob. I quit running, so please don't vote for me.
BOB WELSH I think he's done a good job. I hope whoever the new mayor is will be as open and treat people with ...
BOB WELSH Remember how it felt yesterday? What you saw me do?” I snorted and grinned. “Man, do I ever. I r...
MISSY WELSH The good part is that not all of the buds are open. If the bud is closed, it will take more than 33 ...
BILLY WELSH Even though it's not below freezing, tender tomato plants aren't going to like it.
BILLY WELSH Plants have not had a chance to harden off.
BILLY WELSH Canoes are an essential part of the lifestyle of these islanders. The traditional hollow log canoes ...
CHRIS WELSH Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born
WELSH PROVERB Adversity and loss make a man wise
WELSH PROVERB The best candle is understanding
WELSH PROVERB If you would get ahead, be a bridge
WELSH PROVERB We fought. We battled. We stuck to our game plan and stuck together. We did all that and still came ...
TIM WELSH I hope to have a self-sustaining business about a year from now.
EDWIN WELSH We're still not relaxed. But the income here has helped us greatly.
EDWIN WELSH It was upsetting. My third child was just getting out of high school, and we were looking at college...
EDWIN WELSH I could have stayed in the field and went to work for another glass company. I just didn't want to l...
EDWIN WELSH I think he's been very helpful to the divers helping them with technique, almost like a coach. Scott...
TIM WELSH I remember, back when I was running one of the trucks, you'd have one or two stocked each year. I st...
CLYDE WELSH Some years it's more, some year's it's less.
CLYDE WELSH We've had them up to eight and nine pounds. But they were eight to nine years old, too. Normal brown...
CLYDE WELSH