Macaulays Life Quotes & Sayings

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. — Thomas Aquinas

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be. — Zooey Deschanel

Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information. — Toni Morrison

The big problem is how hard it is to achieve equal relationships in a society whose work policies, school schedules, and social programs were constructed on the assumption that male breadwinner families would always be the norm. Tensions between men and women today stem less from different aspirations than from the difficulties they face translating their ideals into practice. — Stephanie Coontz

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind. — Charles Wright

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at. — J Mascis

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs. — John Templeton

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I saw a fellow in a Don't Tread on Me T-shirt the other day. He was at LaGuardia and he was being trod all over, by the obergropinfuhrers of the TSA, who had decided to subject him to one of their enhanced pat-downs. There are few sights more dismal than that of a law-abiding citizen having his genitalia pawed by state commissars, but having them pawed while wearing a Don't Tread on Me T-shirt is certainly one of them. — Mark Steyn

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel. — Stephen King

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can. — Dan Pallotta