Andrew McMahon Quotes

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

Andrew McMahon

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• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Idea
  • Young
  • Become

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Truth
  • Said
  • Will

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Present
  • Road
  • Fire

• The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Heart
  • Parents
  • Dad

• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • Found
  • Verse

• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

  

  Kara Walker
  • American
  • True
  • Soul

• I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Time
  • School
  • Exercise

• I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Friends
  • True

• I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Point
  • Responsible
  • Speculate

• Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Taken

• I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Heart
  • Sunshine

• A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Chicago

• You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Father

• My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fashion
  • Sister
  • Magazines

• In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Yourself
  • Too Much
  • Smell

• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • End

• I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Used
  • Turns
  • Optimist

• My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Friends
  • Mean
  • Goal

• Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Path
  • Sense
  • Fragile