Kevin Myers Quotations

We've got guys with good form, but until we get them in competition, we don't know what they've got,

We've steered to the idea that the Contemporary is a convention resort.

We have something for everyone. It's pretty relaxed.

What we are doing is really a complete redesign of the rooms. We generally stay on a certain cycle.

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

(Sophomores) know they have the chance to play. It's not like we've got six or seven guys set on each side of the ball,

You're not going to play the perfect game you'll have some turnovers, missed blocks, things like that. But we've got to respond to that, that's how we'll determine what kind of team we are.

In the past few years, we had reduced our performance and touring schedule while the company regained financial stability. We plan to include a much heightened touring schedule in the near future with Tucson as our No. 1 priority.

Can we give the ball to him 100 times (a game)?

Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.

The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature....

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.

You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!

No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!

The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.

A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

Everyone is looking for the quick fix, but what they really need is fitness. People who look for fixes stop doing what's right when pressure is relieved. People who pursue fitness do what they should do no matter what the circumstances are.

When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.