Angus Buchan Quotes

The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.

Angus Buchan

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Business
  • Better
  • Company

• My mother read me biblical stories at night.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Me

• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Age
  • Play
  • View

• There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Special

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Possible
  • Leave
  • Playground

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow,And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low:So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,No more through rolling clouds to soar again,View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Blow

• I like the ability to engage intellectually with someone. I get so bored so quickly, so if you can't keep me interested, then I'm out.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Bored

• I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Music
  • Trying

• Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

  

  Doris Eaton Travis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

  

  Ben Schwartz
  • World
  • Character
  • Fun

• I'm a spazzer, you know?

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott

• For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Strong
  • Value

• I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.

  

  David Hemmings
  • Nice

• So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Player

• I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Family
  • Why
  • She

• Mr. Hitler had to leave the stadium early, but after winning I hurried up to the radio booth. When I passed near the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me and I waved back at him.'

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Winning

• The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Reason
  • Born
  • Changed

• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Faith
  • Miracle
  • Believes

• The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Miracle
  • Condition
  • Impossibility