Mcgough And Co Quotes & Sayings

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

The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, just melt and become part of the wind around you, the earth around you, become a part of everything. You're here only for a while. At least when you're in a place like this, where nobody is going to trample on you, let your defenses down. — Sadhguru

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. — Willem Dafoe

Yes. I was just telling Elyse here ... frankly, kids, I'm not sure it's even legal to have a female first mate. We'd have to consult the rule book, but as far as I know, regatta's a man's race."
Christian's jaw ticked, just like it had with his father the night of the party. "Damn. Must have hit my head on the way out of that time machine. 1850, are we? I might need some new clothes. Elyse, you sew right? Don't all girls sew? — Sarah Ockler

Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny. — Pratik Akkawar

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do. — Jordi Molla

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead. — Kamand Kojouri

Even from behind, I knew the seated man was Garth. I'd seen him in chair, saddle, and by a campfire. I'd known him running with his hounds, grooming his horses, leaning back to look at the stars from the branches of a pine tree, hunched with concentration whittling a doll, carrying Alice through a storm, and even sparring with a dragon. A woman will know a man from all sides after that. — Janet Lee Carey

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

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock. — Miles Kington

Love is the soul's battery. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. — Oprah Winfrey

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

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies. — Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

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

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

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

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

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

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

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

Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant. — Jen Hatmaker

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

F**k!" he exploded, chocolate and caramel flying out of his mouth. My heart seized. He looked like he was going to have a chocolate-caramel-layer-square-induced heart attack.
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"These are unbe-f**king-lievable. I think I've finally fallen in love, with a f**kin' brownie! — Kristen Ashley

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

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