Mccues Garden Quotes & Sayings

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind. — Mario Puzo

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job. — Paul O'Grady

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry. — Donald Hall

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years. — Julian Simon

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time. — Virginia Woolf

Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will. — Lionel Johnson

I'm going to sit here with your weird fucking family who don't know me and think I'm some kind of punk rocker turned heroine addict while you dance the night away with Noah mother fucking Scott. And I'm going to do that because I love you. — C.M. Stunich

You either are a good director or you're not. — Rebecca Hall

If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy. — Tony Robbins

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling. — Tom Perrotta

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat. — Dick Rutan