Mccally Private Quotes & Sayings

He loved his family and fellow man, never raised his voice or fists, and was rewarded with a lifelong, routine digestion of small doses of humiliation. — Tim Dorsey

I need to talk to you in private," I said to Rosie. She looked at me very directly. "I don't think there's anything we need to say in private." This seemed odd. But presumably she and Stefan shared information in the same way that Gene and I did. He had accompanied her to the ball. "I was reconsidering your offer of sex," I said. Stefan put his hand over his mouth. — Graeme Simsion

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal. — Robert Moss

I'm as big as snob as they come, but money is a terrible barometer of a person's worth. The standard I used is what a person is choosing to do with his life. So for me a struggling musician (someone dedicated to their craft, not some slacker) is much better than some lame investment banker. And the fact that she lied seemed like she was ashamed. She dismissed my anger as if I were overreacting. — Harvey Pekar

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all. — Thomas Metzinger

I totally remember what it felt like to be so full ... Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon ... You try like hell to fill yourself up with fresh air, from you and from other people. But back then ... it was so damn effortless to feel full, you know? All you had to do was breathe — Jonathan Tropper

What a concentration of images in Pasternak's swallow's nest! And, in reality, why should we stop building and molding the world's clay about our own shelters? Mankind's nest, like his world, is never finished. And imagination helps us to continue it. A poet cannot leave such a great image as this, nor, to be more exact, can such an image leave its poet. Boris Pasternak also wrote Man himself is mute, and it is the image that speaks. For it is obvious that the image alone can keep pace with nature. — Gaston Bachelard

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. — Lord Byron

I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and I'm really fantastic about diagnosing things. — Jill Flint

What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time. — Matt Millen

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands. — Sergei Rachmaninoff

I love you. No matter what, — Veronica Roth

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. — Mignon McLaughlin