You know the song: 'When Irish eyes are smiling, all the world seems bright and gay. Well, not on Fifth Avenue.


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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likel...
BRENDAN BEHAN
I am a daylight atheist.
BRENDAN BEHAN
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
BRENDAN BEHAN
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
BRENDAN BEHAN
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
BRENDAN BEHAN
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
BRENDAN BEHAN
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of m...
BRENDAN BEHAN
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
BRENDAN BEHAN
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
BRENDAN BEHAN
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
BRENDAN BEHAN
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and som...
BRENDAN BEHAN
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
BRENDAN BEHAN
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHAN
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
BRENDAN BEHAN
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
BRENDAN BEHAN
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day...
BRENDAN BEHAN
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's los...
BRENDAN BEHAN
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHAN
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
BRENDAN BEHAN
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect ...
BRENDAN BEHAN
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in t...
BRENDAN FRASER
If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
BRENDAN GILL
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He...
BRENDAN FRASER
When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you t...
BRENDAN FRASER
George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not b...
BRENDAN FRASER
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than t...
BRENDAN GILL
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some...
BRENDAN MYERS
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by ...
BRENDAN MYERS
We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with ...
BRENDAN IRIBE
Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my scho...
BRENDAN IRIBE
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks w...
BRENDAN BEHAN
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ours...
BRENDAN MYERS
It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a ...
BRENDAN IRIBE
Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.
BRENDAN IRIBE
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both forei...
BRENDAN MYERS
I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an inte...
BRENDAN FRASER