Andrew McMahon Quotes

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness.

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• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Religion

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Family
  • Money
  • Society

• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Politics
  • President
  • Talking

• In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Conflict
  • Loyalty

• Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Father
  • Hate
  • Doe

• I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Character

• To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • People
  • Live

• While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.

  

  Charles Tennyson Turner
  • Eyes
  • Magic
  • Promise

• I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Truth
  • Fantasy
  • Finding

• [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up

• All of us live in history, whether we are aware of it or not, and die in drama. The sense of history and of drama comes to a man not because of who he is or what he does but flickeringly, as he is caught up in events, as his personality reacts, as he sees for a moment his place in the great flowing river of humanity.

  

  Carl Mydans
  • Live
  • History
  • Die

• If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Searching
  • Decade
  • Recommendations

• I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Darkness
  • Insight
  • Searching