Maclennan Club Quotes & Sayings

Simplicity is complex. — Jayce O'Neal

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. — Cinda Williams Chima

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? — Matt Stone

Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it. — Gayle Pemberton

Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, alienates us as surely as the ramblings of a madman on a bus. — David Bowker

I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer. On — Maya Angelou

Personally I always preferred Lipton's. — Samuel Beckett

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio") — Tennessee Williams

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications ... I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status. — Rumi

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected. — Abraham Lincoln

The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space. — Ian Christe

Except when I get down and write ... then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters invade my mind. — Mark Alders

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice