Allison Mackie Quotes

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Poet
  • Take

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

  

  Ice T
  • Money
  • Art
  • Culture

• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Content

• We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • People
  • Easy
  • Treat

• 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

• Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Been

• Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Love
  • Abundance

• And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Never

• Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Children
  • Together
  • Party

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Doing

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I am anxious to get as many of these negro regiments as possible, and to have them full, and completely equipped. I am particularly desirous of organizing a regiment of heavy artillery from the negroes, to garrison this place, and shall do so as soon as possible.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant

• I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.

  

  Paco Rabanne
  • Free
  • Control
  • Ideas

• Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Children
  • Future

• If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Good

• But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Up
  • God

• If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Fall
  • Failure
  • Not Matter

• We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

  

  Allison Mackie
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Poetry