John McGahern Quotes

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

John McGahern

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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Every religion there's something foul going on.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Religion
  • Something
  • Going

• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Author
  • Generation
  • Youth

• I don't see the point in working just to be working.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • See
  • Working
  • Point

• My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Run
  • Broke

• I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Better

• To be a good model, you have to be very smart.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • You
  • Model

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Glamorous

• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Power
  • Opinion
  • Habit

• One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Technology

• Let them do what I have done.

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Done

• The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to Nietzsche only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. … The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Character
  • High

• You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Theatre

• I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Weird
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Trying

• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Power

• I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Future
  • Results
  • Events

• A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

  

  Jean Anouilh

• Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Control
  • Moral

• The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Demand
  • Peaceful

• I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

  

  John McGahern