"Quote Unquote"
“If you’re going to get in trouble for being a loud Irish girl who curses, then you’re going to have to lock up half of Brooklyn!”
Rosie O’Donnell discussing the charges against her in the lawsuit taken by the company publishing her magazine Rosie.
– The Irish Voice
“I don’t like bullies. They can say whatever they want about me, and they have. But talking about a 13-year-old was low. That got the Irish up in me.”
Tim Robbins explaining how enraged he was by reports in the Washington Post that Susan Sarandon’s mother feared that her daughter and Robbins were politically brainwashing their son.
– The Irish Times
“I worship my grandfather John Barrymore to an insane degree. I’m either his reincarnation or he’s waiting, he won’t pass on to the next plane until he knows I’m OK and on my way. I sense his need to touch and feel everything and take it in with passion and emotion and tears. I know I’m crazy because of him.”
Drew Barrymore in the New York Post. Barrymore’s great-great grandfather, John Drew of Dublin emigrated to the U.S in 1827. His daughter, Georgiana, married Maurice Barrymore, and became the mother of John Barrymore.
“God is the basis of our law and our government. I cannot and will not violate my conscience.”
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore who was suspended for disobeying a federal court order to remove the granite monument of the Ten Commandments that he installed in the Court.
– The New York Times
“My most important advisor is my brother-in-law, an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn.”
General Wesley Clark rattled off a long list of his advisors, including many Jewish, African-American and Latino names, when he was recently interviewed in New York. General Clark is married to Gertie Kingston, an Irish-American from New York.
– The Irish Voice
“My mother is Irish and she’s been telling me to do this my whole life.”
Actress Maeve Quinlan on eating McCann’s Irish Oatmeal for breakfast. – Allure magazine
“People say I wasted my money. I say 90 percent of it went on women, fast cars and booze. The rest I
wasted.”
Irish soccer legend George Best explains his finances.
–The New York Post
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