Bill McLaren Quotes

He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

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• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Country
  • Help

• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Today
  • Vote
  • Ralph

• I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • God
  • Night
  • Three

• The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.

  

  Keri Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Hate

• Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • History
  • Drama

• A perfect scenario would be to feel like you've just started on every event.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Perfect

• By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • World
  • Business
  • History

• Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Positive

• I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Team

• Our politicians debate this, but our scientists don't. A huge majority of climate scientists say climate change is happening. They say we're causing it and we need to do something about it before it has a terrible effect on all of us.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel

• I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

  

  David Gallagher
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.'

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Time
  • Failure

• I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Work
  • Model

• Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Worry

• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Nose
  • Librarians
  • Ferret

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself

  

  Max Frisch
  • Writing

• He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

  

  Bill McLaren
  • Ferret
  • Drainpipe