Mackinlee Waddel Quotes & Sayings

Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in. — Jon Stewart

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission. — Candace Bushnell

It is alarming to consider how many major life decisions we take primarily in order to minimise present-moment emotional discomfort. — Oliver Burkeman

I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia.'
'You know that site is woefully inaccurate a lot of the time, right? Because anyone can change the information.'
'Yep. I'm the girl changing the information to make it woefully inaccurate.'
'So half the high schoolers around the country have you to thank for their failing grades on research papers.'
'Yes, sir. I'm practically a celebrity. Or I would be if it wasn't anonymous. — Kody Keplinger

What's getting all the attention is we have South Dakota putting out this direct frontal attack. I'm actually just as concerned about what they're doing every day on the ground. If you restrict access to the point there is no one who can or will do it for you, you've taken the right away. And that's becoming the reality for women in many states in this country. — Jackie Payne

The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living ... and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life
service for others. — Edward Bok

Let the beauty of sunrise, keep your heart warm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time. — Robert Redford

Marriage is hard, labor-intensive. It's not supposed to be easy. — Patricia Elam

I'm more of a science-fizz-bam-boom-poof girl than an artsy-fartsy type. — Angela Cervantes

Exile must be a terrible thing, said Norton sympathetically.
"Actually," said Amalfitano, "now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in its way, helps to abolish fate, or what is generally thought of as fate."
"But exile," said Pelletier, "is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything you try to do that's important."
"That's just what I mean by abolishing fate," said Amalfitano. "But again, I beg your pardon. — Roberto Bolano

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas. — Basil Wolverton

This is one of the most crucial things that the newcomer needs to know about Barthelme. Though his stuff is sometimes difficult to puncture, and sometimes difficult to follow, while you're finding your way, he's always grinning at you in a warm and very compassionate way. The reader gets the feeling that the author is a nice man. That he knows when he's being difficult and when he's full of shit. Knows how much of this and how much of that you can actually take. He differs from some of his contemporaries, and from many other forgers of new prose styles, in that he doesn't ever give off the impression that he takes himself overseriously, and he seems genuinely to care whether or not his work is being read by you. He is a social writer. A writer who seems to be in the next room, waiting for you to finish and tell him what you thought. — Donald Barthelme

I believe in angels. I believe in God. — Joe Nichols

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention. — Buzz Aldrin