Breccan Mcgee Quotes & Sayings

It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World Trade Center revealed to us is that we were never complex. We might want to believe that we can condemn and we can love and we can condemn because we love our country, but that's too complex. — Claudia Rankine

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down. — Jennifer Ehle

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down. — D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it! — Leonardo Da Vinci

Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me! — Stephen Richards

What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is it
that never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for me
something other than this,
something not so insistent
am I to be locked in this
final uneasiness. — Robert Creeley

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever. — Lewis H. Lapham

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let's see something to prove it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like. — Marianne Williamson

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that. — David Brooks