Mark McKinnon Quotes
Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.
Quotes to Explore
-
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
-
I'm very self-critical.
-
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
-
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
-
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
-
Good design should be honest.
-
I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
-
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-
Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
-
I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
I'm not a Democrat.
-
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
-
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
-
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
-
I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
-
I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.
-
Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.
-
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
-
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
-
Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.
