Roisin Murphy quotes

Unzip my body, take my heart out
-- Roisin Murphy

#Heart #Body #My Heart

If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.
-- Roisin Murphy

#Running #Children #Hands

When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling, as if I were listening to the sound of a party at the end of the world. And with such strong imagery coming to mind I was only too happy to write with them when they asked. Flash of Light is about that last night on earth, a forewarning of the end of an era and a last chance to Love.
-- Roisin Murphy

#Strong #Party #Writing

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

There must be an angel playing with my heart.

Near, far wherever you are...you're here in my heart.

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.