Mackenzie My Books The Archived Quotes & Sayings

Escape is fine, but what if in the end, there's nowhere to escape to? — Peter Chianca

Nothing is impossible. Everything is possible. It's all in the attitude. — Richard Verry

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that. — Ben Shahn

Now, as I look around at a room filled not only with boxes but plenty of its own marks, I want to know the stories behind them. Or rather, a part of me wants to know those stories. The other part of me thinks that's the worst idea in the world, but I don't listen to that part. Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy, Da's warning echoes in my head, and I know; but there are no Histories here to feel sympathy for. Which is exactly why the Archive wouldn't approve. They don't approve of any form of recreational reading. — Victoria Schwab

Asha, love, do you know what your name means?"

I nodded "Hope — Claire Granger

I musn't run away. — Hideaki Anno

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa. — Nina Blackwood

That's him!" he said. "That's the one!"
"Is it, indeed?" Inspector Hewitt asked, as he lifted the cap from my head and took the gown from my shoulders with the gentle deference of a valet.
The little man's pale blue eyes bulged visibly in their sockets.
"Why, it's only a girl!" he said.
I could have slapped his face. — Alan Bradley

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time. — Chester Brown

Nellie Cashman, from Midleton, County Cork, made a mint providing "bed, board, and booze" to the gold and silver miners all over the western US and Canada. She was a prodigious entrepreneur, running and owning numerous stores, restaurants, and hotels in various mining settlements. While working the bar of her hotel, canny Nellie was able to buy a number of very lucrative mines by discretely listening to the gossip of drunken prospectors. — Rashers Tierney

You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it. — Jennifer Crusie

And also that God's will has a lot more to do with inviting us to become more than we previously have been than about getting us to one very specific destination. God's will, should we choose to engage in it, will generally feel like surgery, rooting out all the darkness and fear we've come to live with. — Shauna Niequist

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow. — William Shakespeare

Abused people cling to their abusers. — Robert Galbraith