George MacKay Quotes

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

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• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Grip

• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Words
  • Eye

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Privilege
  • Serve
  • Honour

• Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Country
  • Today
  • Potential

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.

  

  Eric Balfour
  • Boy
  • Beach

• Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Time
  • Great

• We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • War

• Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.

  

  Steve Rushin
  • Football
  • Catastrophic
  • Afflictions

• The Holy Spirit! This is the Spirit's role: to bring Christ's work to fulfillment. Enriched with the Spirit's gifts, you will have the power to move beyond the piecemeal, the hollow utopia, the fleeting, to offer the consistency and certainty of Christian witness!

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Work
  • Power
  • Christian

• My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

  

  George MacKay
  • Work
  • Dad