Live in the moment, with an eye to the future and a glance to the past.
RUTH NINA WELSH After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things....
NINA - Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.
JOHN WELSH When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first nove...
IRVINE WELSH Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
WELSH PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
WELSH PROVERB We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. W...
IRVINE WELSH Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
IRVINE WELSH You can't lie to your soul.
IRVINE WELSH But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for t...
IRVINE WELSH If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choo...
IRVINE WELSH Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WELSH PROVERB I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
IRVINE WELSH I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business...
IRVINE WELSH I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me fin...
IRVINE WELSH People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or the...
IRVINE WELSH I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so ...
IRVINE WELSH I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excit...
IRVINE WELSH Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...
IRVINE WELSH I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic...
IRVINE WELSH We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can o...
IRVINE WELSH Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes,...
IRVINE WELSH In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I ca...
IRVINE WELSH Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it tha...
IRVINE WELSH You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-...
IRVINE WELSH Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but...
IRVINE WELSH The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world...
IRVINE WELSH Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
IRVINE WELSH I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various band...
IRVINE WELSH Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not R...
MATT WELSH Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations wit...
MATT WELSH A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
WELSH PROVERB Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet.
WELSH PROVERB For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. M...
IRVINE WELSH I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Gene...
IRVINE WELSH I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you ...
IRVINE WELSH Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
IRVINE WELSH Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
IRVINE WELSH The Saxon shits in his breech, The cleanly Briton in the hedge
WELSH PROVERB Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or s...
IRVINE WELSH It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather...
IRVINE WELSH It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and ico...
IRVINE WELSH Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
IRVINE WELSH In the overall process we're still the farthest along. Whether we'll be first or not I can't say. Th...
SCOTT WELSH I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about th...
IRVINE WELSH In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' ma...
IRVINE WELSH There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bu...
IRVINE WELSH This was a joyous surprise. He works so hard. This year he's been doing dives he has never done befo...
TIM WELSH There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so...
IRVINE WELSH I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Po...
IRVINE WELSH take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
IRVINE WELSH We're concerned for two reasons. There could be copycat activity (of the exchange) in other ports an...
CHRIS WELSH This kind of game really shows what we're capable of when we play the way like we know we can. Now w...
CHRIS WELSH I'm going to go ahead and say it, this week is the week. I feel pretty confident in our team, our co...
CHRIS WELSH Honestly, if I hadn't already paid for this semester I would have stayed. There's so much to do.
AYSHIA WELSH Rather than just doing something for myself, I thought I'd do something to help other people.
AYSHIA WELSH We're gutting houses, cleaning up mold, cutting down trees in the way. We're basically doing a deep ...
AYSHIA WELSH There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an E...
IRVINE WELSH To walk into this vast place where these pillars pull you up, it's like wow.
KEITH WELSH This feels absolutely amazing. When it was over I had a girl run up to me and just kiss me on the ch...
CHRIS WELSH Seton Hall has certainly shown that they're moving toward the upper echelon of our league because of...
TIM WELSH Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
WELSH PROVERB Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge brings wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB Of a compliment only a third is meant
WELSH PROVERB Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily
WELSH PROVERB Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise
WELSH PROVERB If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.
MATT WELSH He understands badly who listens badly
WELSH PROVERB I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went ...
IRVINE WELSH Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's
WELSH PROVERB A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH Without perseverance talent is a barren bed
WELSH PROVERB N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, ...
IRVINE WELSH This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
IRVINE WELSH A lot of this stuff has been tried before, and didn't make it. But who knows? Maybe he will make it.
BOB WELSH I'm Bob. I quit running, so please don't vote for me.
BOB WELSH I think he's done a good job. I hope whoever the new mayor is will be as open and treat people with ...
BOB WELSH There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
IRVINE WELSH Remember how it felt yesterday? What you saw me do?” I snorted and grinned. “Man, do I ever. I r...
MISSY WELSH Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...
IRVINE WELSH The good part is that not all of the buds are open. If the bud is closed, it will take more than 33 ...
BILLY WELSH Even though it's not below freezing, tender tomato plants aren't going to like it.
BILLY WELSH Plants have not had a chance to harden off.
BILLY WELSH I don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are musi...
IRVINE WELSH Canoes are an essential part of the lifestyle of these islanders. The traditional hollow log canoes ...
CHRIS WELSH Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born
WELSH PROVERB Adversity and loss make a man wise
WELSH PROVERB The best candle is understanding
WELSH PROVERB If you would get ahead, be a bridge
WELSH PROVERB I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know...
IRVINE WELSH The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when...
IRVINE WELSH What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
IRVINE WELSH When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousne...
IRVINE WELSH When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid &poun...
IRVINE WELSH It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as suc...
IRVINE WELSH Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot ...
IRVINE WELSH You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are th...
IRVINE WELSH We fought. We battled. We stuck to our game plan and stuck together. We did all that and still came ...
TIM WELSH If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always g...
IRVINE WELSH It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...
IRVINE WELSH adjourn for another beer. We
IRVINE WELSH É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa histó...
IRVINE WELSH Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade...
IRVINE WELSH E por aí vão, metidos nessa batalha, testando forças e afirmando um ao outro que não discordam f...
IRVINE WELSH It’s a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oot fae the insi...
IRVINE WELSH Ye see, Rab, it’s due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our...
IRVINE WELSH If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the worl...
IRVINE WELSH Now I’ll be left alone, and that’s all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone whi...
IRVINE WELSH it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.
IRVINE WELSH Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find ...
IRVINE WELSH He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something li...
IRVINE WELSH Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but s...
IRVINE WELSH ...we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked ov...
IRVINE WELSH It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
IRVINE WELSH Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our s...
IRVINE WELSH I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of th...
IRVINE WELSH But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...
IRVINE WELSH Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...
IRVINE WELSH I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of th...
IRVINE WELSH You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.
IRVINE WELSH 'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you fin...
IRVINE WELSH I hope to have a self-sustaining business about a year from now.
EDWIN WELSH We're still not relaxed. But the income here has helped us greatly.
EDWIN WELSH It was upsetting. My third child was just getting out of high school, and we were looking at college...
EDWIN WELSH I could have stayed in the field and went to work for another glass company. I just didn't want to l...
EDWIN WELSH I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, ...
IRVINE WELSH I think he's been very helpful to the divers helping them with technique, almost like a coach. Scott...
TIM WELSH I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometim...
IRVINE WELSH It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
IRVINE WELSH We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think...
IRVINE WELSH I remember, back when I was running one of the trucks, you'd have one or two stocked each year. I st...
CLYDE WELSH Some years it's more, some year's it's less.
CLYDE WELSH We've had them up to eight and nine pounds. But they were eight to nine years old, too. Normal brown...
CLYDE WELSH We hit the ball, but then we kicked it around. Right now, we're up and down, hopefully this will get...
GEORGE WELSH This is one of the toughest districts in the state I think. It's gonna be a horse race.
GEORGE WELSH We're very young. I think our pitchers are gonna be pretty good, if our defense can stay strong I th...
GEORGE WELSH Clell, Gillman and I are joined by the wee chinky bird with the toff's English-Yank accent. It keeps...
IRVINE WELSH Le regole son quelle.
IRVINE WELSH As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
IRVINE WELSH Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd w...
IRVINE WELSH The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want...
IRVINE WELSH The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...
IRVINE WELSH That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, ...
IRVINE WELSH Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
IRVINE WELSH Are you asking me or telling me?
IRVINE WELSH Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...
IRVINE WELSH How did it make you feel?
IRVINE WELSH All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it was...
IRVINE WELSH Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what el...
IRVINE WELSH I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
IRVINE WELSH Same rules apply.
IRVINE WELSH You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
IRVINE WELSH I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t...
IRVINE WELSH Bob and Katherine Devlin have been tremendously supportive, donating space and time for one of their...
MEL WELSH We wanted to finish off well. I'm just amazed by how much fight we had at the end of the week. I don...
MATT WELSH Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough
IRVINE WELSH They come by and they have fun. We're going to be hosting some parties here and we'll be having even...
PAUL WELSH There are already three or four of these companies in the Denver area, but we're really the first of...
TIM WELSH Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos...
IRVINE WELSH Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside...
IRVINE WELSH I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
NINA SIMONE The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the re...
NINA SIMONE As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
NINA HAGEN Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument...
NINA SIMONE Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.
NINA EASTON My six favorite textures for fall and winter are leather, fur, tweed, mohair, velvet and wool. I lov...
NINA GARCIA 'Style Strategy' is about shopping smart, staying chic and making it all last. It's abou...
NINA GARCIA Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage...
NINA GARCIA The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vamp...
NINA DOBREV My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spe...
NINA GARCIA I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically ...
NINA BAWDEN Don't get me wrong, I love a good cardigan too, but a jacket - especially one with sharp shoulde...
NINA GARCIA I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell ...
NINA BAWDEN Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various ...
NINA GARCIA I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.
NINA HAGEN I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm...
NINA CONTI We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date...
NINA GARCIA The best listeners listen between the lines.
NINA MALKIN I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better frie...
NINA LACOUR My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
NINA LACOUR I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
NINA BERBEROVA There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of...
NINA FEDOROFF Cole Haan is like high fashion Nike, so you feel like you're wearing Nike shoes, but you're ...
NINA DOBREV Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color cont...
NINA DOBREV I'm all about the high heel; I think it's the sexiest accessory ever made, including lingeri...
NINA GARCIA The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomp...
NINA EASTON Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans.
NINA GARCIA I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice an...
NINA HAGEN Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.
NINA DOBREV I am a fan of the vampire shows, especially 'True Blood.' I'm obsessed with it. I got to...
NINA DOBREV Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
NINA DOBREV People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not l...
NINA DOBREV The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vamp...
NINA DOBREV I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.
NINA DOBREV Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you sp...
NINA DOBREV