George Barr McCutcheon Quotes

He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.

George Barr McCutcheon

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• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Magic
  • Almost

• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Speak

• On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Want
  • You
  • Size

• I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Running

• 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Home
  • Hair
  • Cooking

• The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Hand
  • Human
  • Strange

• Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Fun
  • Driving
  • Bike

• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Really

• What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Magical

• If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Why
  • Want
  • Wonder

• People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Strong
  • Church

• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Sorry

• Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Business
  • Write
  • First

• Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by,It's so hard to make every note bend just right.You lay down the hours and leave not one traceBut a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Sweet

• The best mind-altering drug is truth.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Drug

• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World
  • Free

• If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Political
  • Action
  • Car

• That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Running

• The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Green

• My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

  

  James Heckman
  • Life
  • Family
  • Deep

• Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Important
  • Political
  • Control

• He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.

  

  George Barr McCutcheon