Mcdermotts Quotes & Sayings

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti. — James Thurber

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history. — Walter Lippmann

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. — Drew Barrymore

If one maintains the intent of, 'no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account', then his work will be considered to be done. — Dada Bhagwan

Resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.' — Laura Hillenbrand

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off. — Hugh Laurie

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan. — Jacques Delors

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt? — Robert Cormier

Home is the place where true politeness tells. — Julia McNair Wright

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide. — E.W. Howe

Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot. — Eve Ensler

All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Why haven't we had sex in six days?"
"Because you have a bullet wound."
She cocked her head. Devin braced himself for the barrage of bullshit she was about to spew. "Last I checked, I didn't get shot in the pussy; I got shot in the arm. And since you're not into armpit fucking, there shouldn't be a problem." Her gaze dropped to his crotch. "Or is there? — Lorelei James

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was ... frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to ... let it go. — Pharrell Williams