Mcgough Quotes & Sayings

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death. — Roger McGough

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core. — Evan Osnos

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front. — Bill Gurley

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry.
Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories.
McGough: Really? When?
Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ... — Graham Chapman

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. — Roger McGough

What do I love most? Working with words. Words in a sentence are like pieces of a puzzle; you try out a whole bunch, then turn them this way and that until they fit into the whole. Creating flow is crucial. There's nothing like the moment when, after working and reworking a sentence, everything falls into place, and you know that it's right. What I do love least? Touring. It's grueling, time-consuming, and lonely. — Barbara Delinsky

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it. — Roger McGough

Noone knows and noone sees
we lovers doing what we please
but people stop and point at these
ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese — Roger McGough

By thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth. — Roger McGough

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. — Roger McGough

People can put their best poems straight onto the web. — Roger McGough

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. — Roger McGough

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision. — Roger McGough

The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then — Roger McGough

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. — Barry McCaffrey

When you go to sleep, where do you really go? — Brian Lovestar

The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself — Guy Finley

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems. — Roger McGough

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three. — Roger McGough

There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. — Cormac McCarthy

There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all? — Roger McGough

If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. — Roger McGough

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things. — Roger McGough

I blamed myself for being vulnerable. Vulnerability felt like a banner that announced, 'Come and get me!' But when I think of it the other way, I don't pounce on other people just because I can. I don't go around looking for people smaller or weaker than me so I can attack them. When I find someone's vulnerability, my impulse is to protect and cover them, not to use it against them. — Christina Enevoldsen

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. — Roger McGough

So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis,
Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies — Roger McGough

Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces? — Roger McGough

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. — Roger McGough

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength. — Jean De La Fontaine

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it. — Tim Burton

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world. — Kevin Systrom

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. — Roger McGough

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. — Roger McGough

Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends. — Karen Joy Fowler