Frank Delaney Quotes

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued. ~ Frank Delaney

What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or - don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse. ~ Frank Delaney

Patrick had left behind some writings, and one of his most famous works was something many of us learned in school called "Saint Patrick's Breastplate," a kind of a cross between a hymn and a poem. ~ Frank Delaney

Draped across an armchair lay his famous long black coat, empty now, and hollow with missing him. ~ Frank Delaney

Tonight, I'm certainly going to tell you a story, but 'tis a story with a difference because, unlike virtually every other tale I tell-in this case, I was there. And yet I know that although I was there, and I saw people who were real, they have since become somewhat imagined-because I now view them through my memory. That's something every human being does-but storytellers live by it. ~ Frank Delaney

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges. ~ Frank Delaney

I write - and then I write some more. ~ Frank Delaney

...habit of speaking in paragraphs. ~ Frank Delaney

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. ~ Frank Delaney

Fair is a body pigment, that's all it is. ~ Frank Delaney

that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up. ~ Frank Delaney

A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious. ~ Frank Delaney

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries' ~ Frank Delaney

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person. ~ Frank Delaney

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow. ~ Frank Delaney

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't - the enemies of contentment. ~ Frank Delaney

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough. ~ Frank Delaney

Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator ~ Frank Delaney

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die. ~ Frank Delaney

Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone's life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance. ~ Frank Delaney

Stories are where you go to look for the truth of your own life. ~ Frank Delaney

James left us, taking his great, informed soul with him. ~ Frank Delaney

Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations. ~ Frank Delaney

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started. ~ Frank Delaney

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas
stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence. ~ Frank Delaney

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. ~ Frank Delaney

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And he had other assets; one of them -- you'll be surprised at this -- was sin...Whatever it was, Patrick said how it weighed on him. He also exploited it -- because it enabled him to meet people on an equal footing. He was able to say, "Look, I'm not above you. I have my faults, too. I've done terrible things." Just because someone had once sinned, he said, didn't mean they were bad through and through. And that was part of his work in life -- to show that people might sin and still go on to live good lives. ~ Frank Delaney

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man. ~ Frank Delaney

If you have a book, you have a friend. ~ Frank Delaney

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever. ~ Frank Delaney

Beneath its broad surface, storytelling should always work hard to say more than it seems to. ~ Frank Delaney

Every pain is a lesson. ~ Frank Delaney

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy. ~ Frank Delaney

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. ~ Frank Delaney

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge. ~ Frank Delaney

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"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed
eventually. ~ Frank Delaney

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier. ~ Frank Delaney

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. ~ Frank Delaney

the Devil became desperate to get away. His way was blocked, so he bit a big chunk out of the mountaintop and carried it off in his mouth. Patrick, stunned at the size of the hole in the mountain, hesitated for a moment, and lost his advantage. By the time he looked up, the Devil had gone too far ahead to be caught. Patrick gave up the chase. Up ahead, at Cashel, the Devil stopped for a rest, and he dropped the stone out of his mouth. That stone became the Rock of Cashel, the most famous sight in Ireland. ~ Frank Delaney

When the dark clouds flutter like bats in my head I wish I could open a window and release them. ~ Frank McCourt

If you like, I can leave and let you figure this - "
Legna grabbed his arm at the bicep when he made a strong movement to get up off the bed, jerking him back down definitively.
"Absolutely not! You did this to me; therefore, you get to enjoy the fallout."
"You make it sound like a punishment," he remarked, his eyes dancing with silver humor. "There is nowhere I would rather be than in my bed with my beautiful mate."
He leaned forward to engage her mouth in a tender kiss, their lips clinging together as if reluctant to release. Finally, he sat back, leaving her warm and happily flushed.
"Charmer," she accused him without malice.
"Siren," he countered, pulling them back together. And into a deep kiss that left them both longing for breath. ~ Jacquelyn Frank

You have a body that's made to pound a woman into her bed. So, I'm really hoping you can live up to that. ~ Ella Frank

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. ~ Frank Gehry

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment. ~ Frank Herbert

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once. ~ Frank Herbert

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members. ~ Frank Quattrone

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ~ Hu Shih

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. ~ Frank Zappa

Was this what love was supposed to be like? An emotion that made you want to willingly give up everything for another - and how much was I willing to give. ~ Ella Frank

Willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona
I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing ~ Frank O'Hara

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea. ~ Frank O'Connor

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. ~ L. Frank Baum

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context. ~ David O. Russell

The lock that had kept his heart firmly shut away had finally found its key. ~ Ella Frank

-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick. ~ Irvine Welsh

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me. ~ Thom Mayne

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet. ~ Frank Herbert

Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen. ~ Frank Zappa

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. ~ Frank Sinatra

Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn. ~ Frank Wead

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. ~ Frank Sinatra

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad. ~ Frank Bruno

All victimhood is ego and is not spiritually inspired ~ Frank Healy

Schools were started to train human talents ...
The Guild ... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs ... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes. ~ Frank Herbert

My brother laughed at my nostalgia, reminding me that I could still drive the car when I came home. He didn't understand that it wasn't just the driving I'd miss. That it was the tinfoil balls, the New York Times, and the broken speaker; the fingernail marks, the stray cassettes, and the smell of chai. Alone that night and parked in my driveway, I listened to Frank Sinatra with the moon roof slid back. ~ Marina Keegan

Frank Lampard has a vision for seeing things ~ Jamie Redknapp

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine. ~ Frank Oski

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away. ~ Frank Langella

If I die, I just want you to know that you have never looked hotter than you do right now, and that is the only reason I'm about to risk my life."
Tate raised a hand, and before he shut the visor, he promised, "I'll look even hotter in fifteen minutes when I'm naked. So, quit bitching, and get on the bike, Logan. ~ Ella Frank

She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves. ~ L. Frank Baum