Macindaw Quotes & Sayings

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West

God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once. — Watchman Nee

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest. — Leonardo Da Vinci

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you
it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events. — David Levithan

Time can trap you, she thought, wind around things as transparent as glass and strong as steel and before you know it you're caught. Nothing moves. It mattered terribly but was unchangeable. — Anne Leonard

Shouldn't he want to know about something that has happened to his mother, that will happen to his wife, his sisters, his daughter and, I went on morosely, if ever he has an affair, even to his mistress? — Azar Nafisi

Soon, sampled by everyone,
Stale and pallid,
I'll come out
And mumble toothlessly
That today I'm
Remarkably candid. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

True story
This morning I jumped on my horse
And went for a ride,
And some wild outlaws chased me
And shot me in the side.
So I crawled into a wildcats cave
To find a place to hide
But some pirates found me sleeping there
And soon they had me tied
To a pole and built a fire
Under me---I almost cried
Till a mermaid came and cut me loose
And begged to be my bride
So I said id come back Wednesday
But I must admit I lied.
Then I ran into a jungle swamp
But I forgot my guide
And I stepped into some quicksand
And no matter how hard I tried
I couldn't get out, until I met
A watersnake named Clyde
Who pulled me to some cannibals
Who planned to have me fried
But an eagle came and swooped me up
And through the air we flied
But he dropped me in a boiling lake
A thousand miles wide
And you'll never guess what I did then---
I DIED — Shel Silverstein

Because I don't really work out, I have to eat very healthy if I want to maintain my figure. — Jillian Barberie

But I wasn't happy ... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt].
'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace ...
The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me ... three more men does make a lot of difference. — John Flanagan

If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one — John Flanagan

While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993. — David Souter

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. — Ulysses S. Grant

Men like mystery. They don't want to be told everything woman are thinking. — Elisabeth Elliot

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours. — Kemmons Wilson

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. — Emil Cioran

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level. — Shirley Maclaine