Archie Macpherson Quotes

I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

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• There are no second acts in American lives.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American
  • Lives
  • Second

• Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Learning
  • Pet
  • Parenting

• Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Bubbles

• That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Character
  • Rebel
  • Hilt

• Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais
  • People
  • Animals
  • Distinguish

• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Language
  • Broken

• No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  

  John Milton
  • Inspires
  • Spell
  • Trance

• I always dreamed of going out to space. The idea of going to a planet where nobody's ever been is attractive to me, it just suits my nature.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Attractive

• Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Belief
  • Doubts

• I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

  

  Trisha Goddard
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Alcohol

• You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Guy
  • Cannot
  • Replace

• Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up.

  

  Julia Butterfly Hill
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

  

  Faris Badwan
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Natural

• The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Revelation
  • Final

• I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

  

  Archie Macpherson
  • Final
  • Prediction