Lex Quotes

“Don't dream, that's what I've learned; don't dream because it's not worth it, or dream in a place no one knows you; that way your failures will be anonymous.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“I say you can't just marry because you're scared of him, in fact that's the worst reason; in fact if you're scared of him you shouldn't even be with him.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“Clifden doesn't have a Starbucks. In Starbucks' desire to dominate the world coffee market, not even they can be bothered with the town of Clifden; it's another sign I have to get away. I think it would do well here; people would go there to meet instead of going to the pub. Our livers would be better but we'd be a bit more wilted.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“Ma has already spotted this and told me people have their own lives to lead, which is true but people are held up by the support networks around them. And when someone who is a bit fragile anyway has all their support taken away at once, and you are taking one of those support branches away yourself, then it's very hard not to feel like you are doing the wrong thing.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“Women don't play games as much: could that be why girls are racing ahead of boys at school, because the boys are being held back by being retarded enough not to break the lure of computers and their life-robbing temptations.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“I don't usually play computer games; they rob people of time and contribute nothing to the world. Think of the time people (mainly boys or boyish men) spend on those applications wasting their time; they're stealing the chance of learning or growing or just doing anything that could have a long-lasting effect that might leave us with something.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“I should stop thinking: thinking does nothing but paralyse me. No wonder alcohol is the number one choice of pastime in this country. It stops you thinking, or only allows you to entertain one thought at a time, which you've forgotten about by time you open your mouth to say it in the first place.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“What's the saying? 'Life is what happens when your plan is a load of fucking rubbish and you're too thick to pass a poxy exam.' Very poetic.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“The future is not going to be changed by who has got the most memory. The future is going to be changed by people who can think differently, but that is not what exams measure: they are just linear measurement of memory.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“Da once said that perspective dictates life. Understand perspective and you'll understand life.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“I asked him why once, about sticking in the same town all his life. He said he never really wanted to go anywhere else; that it was plenty grand here. That kind of limited thinking can actually be a good thing: it leads to contentment and happiness. If you settle for the really uncomplicated and unstretched dream then you are likely to fulfill it, and as long as you don't question it, you are going to be satisfied.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“I wonder if the social grapevine will be replaced by an Internet message board in the future, where you can just get an update on everyone and what they are up to. At the moment it's just done through chat, but it can't be too long.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“To be interesting and keep being interesting and keep being interested, that is the pinnacle that's the ultimate goal of man, not to climb a fucking mountain or score a goal.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“But like, why do people spend all this time trying to be the best at sport; why do people not strive to be the most interesting. Interesting is better than good at sport, and I don't mean the cleverest; there's plenty of stuff for clever. Clever doesn't mean interesting, although interesting people are usually clever.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“Man, sometimes there's just too much stuff to know. I'm never going to know it all. It's like that Ian Dury song, 'There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards”
― James Mylet, Lex

“I'll admit that I am a bit of a geek; I like the minutiae of life that builds up to bigger things.”
― James Mylet, Lex

“My sister Fiona has gone veggie: she won't even eat fish. She's a moron; we live in the west of Ireland with beautiful cows and beautiful fish. She's such a fool; it's like talking to a deaf person to a gig. Anyway there's nothing we can do with her and we've tried. I told her in return for the animals getting somewhere to live so beautiful as the west coast of Ireland we get to eat them, it's a fair deal. God brokered it himself.”
― James Mylet, Lex