Brian McDonald Quotes
Stories are not complicated. They are, in fact, deceptively simple. But like anything simple, they are difficult to create.
Quotes to Explore
-
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
-
No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
-
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
-
I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
-
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
-
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
-
It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
-
There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
-
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
-
People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
-
I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.
-
My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.
-
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.
-
After all meat is meat. I don't understand why so many people are bithing about it. It's very healthy and contains lots of vitamins
-
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
-
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
-
Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.
-
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
