Mcarthurs Pub Quotes & Sayings

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing. — Mike Erre

Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner, I'm almost positive. Perhaps there was even some little stump of an apeman who witnessed prehistoric lightning as it parried with prehistoric blackness in a night without rain, and felt his soul rise and fall at the same time to behold this sublime and terrifying conflict. Perhaps such displays provided inspiration for those very first imaginings that were not born of our daily life of crude survival, who knows? Could this be why all our primal mythologies are Gothic - that is, fearsome, fantastical, and inhuman? — Thomas Ligotti

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling. — Michelle Shocked

Take a second look, you might have not seen it all. — Matthew Williamson

Now ordinary people are born forwards in Time, if you understand what I mean, and nearly everything in the world goes forward too. This makes it quite easy for the ordinary people to live, just as it would be easy to join those five dots into a W if you were allowed to look at them forwards, instead of backwards and inside out. But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of Time, and I have to live backwards from in front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from behind. Some people call it having second sight.
~Merlin — T.H. White

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year. — Rick Riordan

Lies roll off us. It's the truths we work hardest to silence. — Karen Marie Moning

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' — Tom Hooper

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different. — Twiggy

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular. — Darren Shan

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution. — Piet Mondrian

The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom ... when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom which we have under our Constitution, you will know that they are putting shackles on your liberty, and that tyranny is creeping upon you, ... no matter what the reason and excuse therefore may be. — J. Reuben Clark

It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone. — Cat Deeley

Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species. — Tom Perrotta

The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation — Sun Tzu