Saoirse Ronan Quotes

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or some fond memory. We're human beings so we understand that laughter and crying aren't always disparate emotions.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

I always know when a song is good or close to finished. When I sing it, it makes me feel the emotion. My tears will start flowing or I'll start laughing. I'll start feeling whatever intensity or emotion was the seed of that song.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.