Mccasland Foundation Quotes & Sayings

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop? — Myfanwy Pavelic

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. — Evelyn Waugh

I have often been called insane by those who underestimate the power of poetry. — Dan Simmons

Following his wonderful introduction to the joys of womanhood, Waldo found a perverse pleasure in leaving his after-sex cigarette butt glowing on the lawn of the executive mansion. Despite Jeanne's repeated assurances that it wouldn't actually be visible to any nineteenth century passers-by, Waldo preferred to picture his discarded cigarette butt being the center of much scrutiny, with puzzled Civil War-era Washingtonians reacting to it in the same way Brazilian farmers would react to U.F.O.'s a century later. — Donald Jeffries

If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed. — John Grisham

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. — Livy

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. — Lewis Thomas

A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure. — Celestine Sibley

Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [ ... ] — C.S. Lewis

Pine trees rise through cloud
soar up into the blue skies,
bush clover spangled with dewdrops
sways in the autumn breeze;
As I dip cold, pure water
at the edge of the stream,
a solitary white crane
comes lolloping my way. — Baisao

Perhaps you don't have to do anything wrong for someone to reject you. — Dave Franklin