John Irving Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Irving quotes, John Irving sayings, and John Irving proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Baseball is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action. John Irving
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. John Irving
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. John Irving
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ... John Irving
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. John Irving
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you. John Irving
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can. John Irving
Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God John Irving
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. John Irving
In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still. John Irving
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. John Irving
Keep passing the open windows. John Irving
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. John Irving
Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving
Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to. John Irving
Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat. John Irving
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! John Irving
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us. John Irving
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. John Irving
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. John Irving
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child. John Irving
A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you. John Irving