Macnatt Quotes & Sayings

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't — Brigid Brophy

I did not think I could stand a Christmas at my parents' house, with a plastic tree and no snow and the TV going constantly. It was not as if my parent were so anxious to have me, either. In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. Mr MacNatt was an auto-parts salesman; Mrs MacNat was shaped like a pigeon and sold Avon. — Donna Tartt

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation. — James Franco

SEAL, I have a problem," I say to him. "I didn't bring any extra underwear." "So what?" "I can't run without underwear." "Nah, bro, you can't run without legs. It's on. — Jesse Itzler

My deal with Marvel is I have a consulting deal with them as well as a contract to make 'Avengers.' That means I'll read all the scripts, I'll look at cuts. — Joss Whedon

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work. — Barbara Ehrenreich

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star. — Richard D. Zanuck

I got you again. We have to stop meeting like this. — Bella Jeanisse

It was Miss Stephanie's pleasure to tell us: this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of
his life. — Harper Lee

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! — Paul Stamets

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. — Tony Kushner

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close. — Randy Newman

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow