American McGee Quotes
Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to.
Quotes to Explore
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I love to push myself.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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Bald is the new black!
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!
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Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to.
