Ira Quotes - page 2

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. (Joni Mitchell)
The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night. View quote
Alan Clark
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. View quote
Doris Lessing
The whole thing never happened and I can prove it - now. But Ira De Kalb made me wait a billion years to write the story. View quote
Henry Kuttner
[Ira Gershwin] said that [P.G.] Wodehouse will address a letter, stamp it and throw it out of his third-story window onto the street trusting in the good nature of passerby to pick it up and mail it. View quote
Oscar Levant
I called Ira up and I said, 'You're gonna be a cult hero eventually'-and I think it's coming true. The other thing I said to him was, 'It's gonna devour you.' View quote
Ira Glass
He exclaimed, "I wouldn't have stood for it for one bloody moment!!" I said, "And that's why they never told you. You've just answered your own question." He asked, "Well, what do you mean?" I said, "Because if you had known, and this would have been your response, you would have ended up like Jack Kennedy or like Lord Mountbatten, blown up by an alleged IRA bomb that was actually set by this rogue group. And you would have ended up like Marilyn Monroe and Mary Meyer and all these other people, who were killed for not going along with the secrecy You would have ended up like all the rest of them." Then I added, "And like, unfortunately, some of my group - like former CIA Director, Bill Colby" He just looked at me. He then muttered something to effect of, "Those bastards!". View quote
Steven M. Greer
One of my political heroes is the former head of the IRA Martin McGuinness. View quote
John Sweeney (journalist)