Firewater Blues Quotes

“Responsibility is the curse of the capable.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“You know,” began Bunny, “they’re a funny couple of words, aren’t they – ‘political correctness’? I’m a muck savage from the shitty end of Cork, and nobody’s idea of diplomat material, but it strikes me that those two words are simply a derogatory label for what used to be known as basic manners. I live by a very simple rule because I’m a very simple man: people deserve respect until they prove they don’t. I don’t really care who they are, where they’re from or what they look like.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“He noticed buildings came with mission statements these days. It really knocked you back on your arse to realise that inanimate structures had their lives more together than you did.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“Sweet baby Jesus and the donkey he rode in on, the breakfast burritos will change your life. I don’t know whether to eat this thing or take it away for a dirty weekend. Incredible.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“You broke into my house, fixed the doorbell and then went back outside and rang it?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“I live by a very simple rule because I’m a very simple man: people deserve respect until they prove they don’t. I don’t really care who they are, where they’re from or what they look like.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“He thinks he’s JFK but has the brains of a bucket of KFC.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“the woman in question is the most highly paid, shall we say, lady of negotiable virtue, on this fair and noble isle.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“That was something a lot of people didn’t get about true sporting rivalries. You don’t actually hate the so-called enemy; on the contrary, you need them. Victory is only victory and defeat is only defeat when there is something to hold it against.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“they’re a funny couple of words, aren’t they – ‘political correctness’? I’m a muck savage from the shitty end of Cork, and nobody’s idea of diplomat material, but it strikes me that those two words are simply a derogatory label for what used to be known as basic manners.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“What matters is the next thing. We are not defined by what is done to us. We are defined by how we respond to it. Just keep moving forward. How you get through it is to just get through it. Alright?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“he wanted no part of any policing that came down to locking up the poor for being poor.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“That was Rosie, the woman had an innate ability to repeat your words back to you in such away as to strip away all the bullshit and leave your logic standing there naked and embarrassed”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“...Bunny McGarry... Cork’s answer to a question no one asked.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“managed”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues