Edwin McCain Quotes

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend.

Edwin McCain

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• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
  • Meant To Be

• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Day

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Language
  • Beliefs

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Friend
  • Gay

• The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Up
  • Important
  • Words

• I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Roots

• In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin. That is probably the reason why Maulana Mahomed Ali, a great Indian but a true Muslim, preferred to be buried in Jerusalem rather than in India. (pp. 330-331)

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Why
  • True

• The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Words
  • Emotional
  • Walking

• In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Words
  • Worry

• People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • People
  • Words

• Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them!

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Weekend

• In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Friend

• New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Reality
  • Stock

• Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

  

  Marina Warner
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Desire

• 'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Daughter

• As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

  

  Lizzy Caplan

• The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend.

  

  Edwin McCain
  • Words
  • Friend
  • Sorry