Ken MacLeod Quotes
'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
Quotes to Explore
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I want the single player experience.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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Our Samsung Medical Center has caused too big a pain and worry for the people by failing to prevent the infection and spread of MERS. I bow my head in apology.
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If two people live together, one has to be patient, and typically, the other one is very annoying.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
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... because he was going to marry her. “It is customary to ask,” she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she’d licked and sucked and kissed not long ago. “Why?” He shrugged. “I’m not giving you a choice.
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'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
