Alasdair MacLean Quotes

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

Alasdair MacLean

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Words

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Person
  • Comfort
  • Favorite

• We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • Best
  • Forever

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• I always had a fascination with twins.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Always
  • Fascination
  • Twins

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• I had been writing professionally since 1988.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Been
  • Had

• Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Time
  • History
  • Player

• If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People

• Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Trying
  • Night

• I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Live
  • Irish

• I don't love the off-court stuff. But I know it's necessary.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• Cooperation on the international level could help to solve the problem of sources of sharp capital flow volatility and its consequences.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Help

• I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

  

  Katharine Weymouth
  • Business

• Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Walking

• There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Past
  • Beginning

• I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

  

  Alasdair MacLean
  • Words
  • Ears
  • Longing