William McKeen Quotes
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
William McKeen
Quotes to Explore
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
Barton Seaver
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
Rand Paul
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
Abby Wambach
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Lady Gregory
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Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or a car or a shoe or a comment-it's the cut of your sail as you cross this crazy, uncharted sea. Far ahead, legions of boats have already made the crossing-some grander, some more sleek-and still newer boats are always coming up behind you. Style is the manner in which you navigate your one remarkable voyage.
Carol Edgarian
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Tom Stoppard
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What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
William McKeen
