Mckelway Quotes & Sayings

Be sure to live your life, because you are a long time dead. — Scottish Proverb

No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right. — Sarah Dessen

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! — Ovid

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. — Barbara De Angelis

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic. — Mark Twain

So Lillian Ross came to the party. Before dinner, she asked my mother for a tour of the house. My mother showed her around, and at a certain point, Ross came upon a picture of my three sisters and me. "Are these your children?" she asked my mother. "Yes," my mother said. "Do you ever see them?" Lillian Ross asked. That did it. My mother walked Lillian Ross downstairs and back to McKelway. "Out," she said. — Nora Ephron

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know. — Susan Orlean

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you. — Thabo Mbeki

What's so great about being stuck in a dust cloud? — Douglas Adams

Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants, — Jill Paton Walsh

The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes. — St. Clair McKelway

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. — Thomas Hardy

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is. — Terrence Howard

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge. — Madonna Ciccone

I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too. — Vanessa Hudgens

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over. — Keren Ann