Stella Days Quotes

Fr. Daniel Barry: [at a rural electrification meeting]It is all evidence of the power of the almighty working through the mind of man. I know some of you are still weary of these machines. Don't be, electricity is one of the great blessings of our time. In lumine tuo videbimus lumen. In thy light shall we see light.

Movie: Stella Days
Brendan McSweeney: The bishop is a plain speaking man.
Fr. Daniel Barry: I will tell him you said so.

Movie: Stella Days
Tim Lynch: You look like Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows.

Movie: Stella Days
Brendan McSweeney: Have you given any thought to the effect these pictures will have on people?
Fr. Daniel Barry: Oh, I have, Brendan. They will be a source of enlightenment and entertainment to young and old alike.
Brendan McSweeney: Bishop Hegarty might not agree with all that.
Fr. Daniel Barry: You shouldn't assume to know the bishop's mind.

Movie: Stella Days
Tim Lynch: So, what do you want to call it?
Fr. Daniel Barry: The Stella. The star.

Movie: Stella Days
Brendan McSweeney: I have serious moral objections to this enterprise.
Fr. Daniel Barry: Well, go to confession then.
Brendan McSweeney: There are people in this town struggling to put bread on the table, and what are we offering them? A picture house!
Fr. Daniel Barry: The soul is fed by many things, Brendan.

Movie: Stella Days
Legion of Mary Woman 2: Sure, we'll know soon enough if we're being corrupted. By the bee keeping films.
Julia McSweeney: It's not films about bee keeping that they're queueing up to see in Nenagh.

Movie: Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry: It's hard to argue against the radiance of a 60 Watt bulb.

Movie: Stella Days
Brendan McSweeney: You still want to go back to Rome?
Fr. Daniel Barry: They made a twenty eight year old the head curator after I'd been promised that position. He was an Italian of course. I still have my pride.
Brendan McSweeney: So you kicked up a bit of a fuss.
Fr. Daniel Barry: OH! I did. And I ended up here.
Brendan McSweeney: It could have been worse. You could have ended up in the Aran Islands.

Movie: Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry: Saint Patrick would have had a hard time with you.
Brendan McSweeney: Saint Patrick?
Fr. Daniel Barry: Wasn't he an outsider?

Movie: Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry: Into the light of hope... The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us.
Brendan McSweeney: Saint Francis of Assissi.
Fr. Daniel Barry: Charlie Chaplin. The Great Dictator.

Movie: Stella Days
Peggy: [when father Barry says a prayer in English before switching on the electricity in her home for the first time]Oh no, father. Stick to your lovely Latin.

Movie: Stella Days
Fr. Daniel Barry: Do you ever wonder if you have chosen the right path in life, Tim?
Tim Lynch: Every morning when I face the little monsters.
Fr. Daniel Barry: Ah! You see, you're allowed to say that. I am not.

Movie: Stella Days
Sally: [posing beside her new electric cooker]So, how do I look?
Tim Lynch: Perfect. Like Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows.

Movie: Stella Days
Jimmy: TV is the big thing now. Seventeen inch.

Movie: Stella Days