Irish Permanent Building

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

    “Earth, receive an honoured guest:
    William Yeats is laid to rest.
    Let the Irish vessel lie
    Emptied of its poetry.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it’s the other things which are the more permanent and real.”
    —Brian Friel (b. 1929)

    “Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house.
    Will Munny: Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman)