IQ quotes

   We dislike the IRA, most of us, and fear it.We are a peaceful and democratic people.But our history, our idealistic pretensions and our fatal ambivalence have stuck us with an ideology that is warlike and anti- democratic, and calls increasingly for further human sacrifice.

-Joyce Carol Oates
  In the NewYork Review of Books, 29  Apr.

   I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

- Ian Paisley
  Speech at the annual conference of the Democratic Unionist Party. In The IrishTimes,'ThisWeekThey Said', 6 Dec.

If my IQ had beentwo points lower,I'd have beena plant somewhere.

- Lee Buck Trevino
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).