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

• 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 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

• I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Work
  • Men
  • Emotional

• The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Stand a little less between me and the sun.

  

  Diogenes
  • Sun

• I'm trying to go to places where people wouldn't normally, to try to get some new fans.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • People
  • Fans
  • Places

• We were just doing what we loved, and that was it really. We just happened to come along at the right time. We wrote melodic but very hooky tunes, and that plays a big role in our sound.

  

  Kevin Saunderson
  • Sound
  • Melodies
  • Right Time

• From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Black
  • Small
  • Beauty

• I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Real
  • Miracle
  • Honest

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

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Miracle
  • Condition
  • Impossibility