Irish Permanent Building

Famous quotes containing the words irish, permanent and/or building:

    “Hindered characters
    seldom have mothers
    in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “Sickness comes to us all, Mr. Dillon.... We never know when, we never know why, we never know how. The only blessed thing we know is it’ll come at the most inconvenient, unexpected time. Just when you’ve got tickets to the World Series. And that’s the way the permanent waves.”
    —Donald E. Westlake (b. 1933)

    “The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)