Kevin Myers Professions : Journalist Born : March 30, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Kevin Myers We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. Kevin Myers born doubt wings Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'. Kevin Myers there-is-no-i-in-team humour teamwork 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. Kevin Myers light love night Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. Kevin Myers tools kids people 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. Kevin Myers political war people The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain. Kevin Myers divine summer rain When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist. Kevin Myers kicking teeth life 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. Kevin Myers pressure people needs The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all. Kevin Myers problem inspirational thinking 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. Kevin Myers mutation popcorn hollywood 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. Kevin Myers language book people 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. Kevin Myers humorous waiting funny 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! Kevin Myers pie fighting men 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. Kevin Myers brian masters doe 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. Kevin Myers skills two thinking You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it! Kevin Myers failing knows 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. Kevin Myers war peace country Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors
