Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

Marion Chesney

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sea

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Conflict

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• Isolation is a dream killer.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dream
  • Isolation
  • Killer

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Small

• How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Live
  • You
  • Question

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Real
  • American
  • History

• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Religious

• I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kitchen

• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Up
  • Believe

• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • King
  • Talking
  • Bias

• the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

  

  Marion Chesney
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