Warren MacKenzie Quotes

We benefited from living with Bernard Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

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• What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Done
  • Right

• The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

  

  George Washington
  • Sometimes
  • Violence
  • Authority

• Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

  

  Andre Iguodala
  • Player
  • Fans
  • Top

• Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

  

  George Jonas
  • Humanity
  • Nuisance
  • Menace

• When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

  

  Morfydd Clark
  • Interesting
  • Something
  • Stage

• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Marriage
  • Wells
  • Hasty

• It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soldier
  • Private

• If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Insecure
  • Rest Of The World

• Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Wonderful

• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mirrors
  • Increase
  • Acquaintance

• He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Live
  • Man
  • Memory

• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Men
  • Action

• To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Friends
  • Garden
  • Acquaintance

• Before Turner there was no fog in London.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • London
  • Fog
  • Turner

• We benefited from living with Bernard Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Acquaintance