Mckenzie Quotes & Sayings

The good Lord had been having a very creative day when he made Connor McKenzie — Suzanne Wright

I swallow a sigh. — Paige McKenzie

He had taken anger, dipped it in rage and left it to marinate for hours. — McKenzie Hunter

I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product. — Jacqueline McKenzie

Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal — Emma Mckenzie

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. — Charles E. McKenzie

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long) — Richard McKenzie

If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they'd make a fortune. — Catherine McKenzie

You don't choose. I just go where the work is. — Jacqueline McKenzie

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts. — Mary Beth McKenzie

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off. — Charles E. McKenzie

Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us. — Jacqueline McKenzie

I prefer creeptastic," Mom answers with a smile. — Paige McKenzie

Love, at its best, wipes commonsense
Away. Much as drops will condense
From hidden liquid in the air,
So, too, do lovers soon compare
Their temp'ratures til, happily,
Their judgement fogs up suddenly. — McKenzie Bodkin

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick. — Charles E. McKenzie

Free advice is often overpriced. — Charles E. McKenzie

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway. — Ben McKenzie

We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. "Kill me!" it suggested as we passed by. — Elizabeth Mckenzie

Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life. — Catherine McKenzie

My knowledge of Vancouver and Canada was limited to what I knew about Bob and Doug McKenzie. I thought they were funny, talking out of the sides of their mouths and saying 'eh' and wearing toques. — Peter DeLuise

Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on. — Rick Moranis

All I knew was I had to talk to someone. I had to try to steal someone's rationality. — Catherine McKenzie

And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag. It's so obvious they're going to get together. — Catherine McKenzie

Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you're friends again. — Catherine McKenzie

Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. — Catherine McKenzie

My purpose is to learn. My mission is to serve. My heart is to love. My boss is God and my work is to be me. — Erica McKenzie

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. — Jacqueline McKenzie

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book. — Charles E. McKenzie

I don't think that bad actions erase good ones. Not really. — Catherine McKenzie

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen. — Charles E. McKenzie

Like how there's this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn't any better. Apparently, money can't buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would. — Catherine McKenzie

I'm not a mistake, McKenzie, — Sandy Williams

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time. — Charles E. McKenzie

Lavender and Lemongrass Shampoo Ingredients 1 cup of liquid Castile soap ½ cup of Coconut milk ½ cup of Honey 4 tablespoons of Coconut oil 2 tablespoons of Vitamin E oil 20 drops of Lavender oil 30 drops of Lemongrass oil Method Just mix all the ingredients together and store in a shampoo bottle. Shake well before using. Enjoy your amazing smelling hair! — Lila Mckenzie

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot. — Bret McKenzie

Love is the most easily dismissed of God's commandments and characteristics. Christians sometimes seem to say, "Of course we should love people, we all know that. So now let's get on with what we really want to do - fight about theology!" But love is the central Christian ethic, it's the heartbeat of the church. It's central to us because it's essential to God. "God is love," says the Bible (1 John 4:8, NIV). At the core of the Trinity is a love relationship between three Persons. God cannot be separated from love. Love is his nature. Unless the church is actively living out the reality of love, there is little reason to debate theology. And unless the church has a healthy theology we won't recognize true love when we see it. — Thomas McKenzie

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process. — Mary Beth McKenzie

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. — Kevin McKenzie

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's. — Nancy McKenzie

My motto has always been: a hard man is good to find." Tess gave Hunter's unflinching bicep a gentle squeeze, claiming it and the man for her own. "And never let the bride stand in the way of me and my hard man. — Kate Meader

Sometimes life just doesn't allow for a totally happy ending. — Sophie McKenzie

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. — Mary Beth McKenzie

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die. — Bret McKenzie

It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me. — Catherine McKenzie

I think he fucked me stupid- McKenzie Matthews- Being Beckett's — P.S. Berryman

Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few. — Malorie Blackman

Cold comradeship do stars provide.
They light the closer, inner side
Of night's vast weight, which, chill and clear,
Pulls on us like some puppeteer.
Its unseen threads to heads and hearts
Attached, it acts us through our parts,
From birth's first cry to bent old age,
Upon our distant, tiny stage. — McKenzie Bodkin

Have you ever wanted More? Not more stuff . . . or success . . . or fame . . . but more intimacy, more connection, more mystery, more awe — Mariah McKenzie

Gripping her wrists, he pinned her tight to the vanity. "That sex as a weapon thing can only get you so far, Tess."
Wanna bet? "I'm not damaged, cowboy. I don't have hang-ups about my body, I don't use sex to mask my problems" - much - "and right now, if you don't touch me in some very hot, very wet places, I might die. — Kate Meader

It's hard to find someone you'd rather spend time with than not. — Catherine McKenzie

People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like. — Bob McKenzie

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas. — Mary Beth McKenzie

That I'd been letting life act itself out on me when I should have been directing it. — Catherine McKenzie

He glances down at me, and a bolt of blue lightning skitters from his jaw to his temple before disappearing into his dark hair. Another bolt zigzags across the hand he rests on his sword's hilt. They're chaos lusters, visual reminders that the fae don't belong in this world, and they're beautiful, mesmerizing. With his quiet, strong confidence, he's mesmerizing. — Sandy Williams

Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense. — Elizabeth Mckenzie

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes. — Mary Beth McKenzie

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences. — Jacqueline McKenzie

A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now. — Catherine McKenzie

Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and you had to rely on memory to recapture the image. — Catherine McKenzie

He's had ten years to make you fall in love with him. I haven't had ten weeks! Tell me how that's fair! — Sandy Williams

we can proceed without knowing or expectation — Mariah McKenzie

I don't need my heart anymore, you can have it. Cut it out, put it in a box, bury it in the hard ground, next to you. My eyes are useless too. They only show me a world without you. Color blind, color absent, colorless. And my mind screams, Not fair! Not right. Not what I was promised on the swing set as you pushed me toward the sun. None of the stories you read me schooled me for this. I didn't learn this lesson in the moon, or on the train, or as a thing to be curious about. So I don't need my heart anymore, you can have it. Let it be buried, in the hard ground, next to you. — Catherine McKenzie

Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one. — Charles E. McKenzie

It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity. — Ben McKenzie

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday. — Charles E. McKenzie

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time. — Mary Beth McKenzie

It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot. — Benjamin McKenzie

The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy. — Bret McKenzie

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color. — Mary Beth McKenzie

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card. — Jacqueline McKenzie

You're not supposed to want to date a boy just for jacket access. — Paige McKenzie

She felt her future close upon her but unseen, like the sea behind the blowing veil of snow ... She would follow Llyr's advice and face it a little every day ... Day by day, step by step life would go forward. Eventually, the veil would lift, the cold would yield to the sun's warmth, and the world would be reborn. This dark time would pass. — Nancy McKenzie

When you entered the cavern of another language, you could leave certain people behind, for they had no interest in following you in. You could, by way of translation, emerge from the cavern and share your adventures with them. You didn't have to be an intellectual in a black beret smoking clove cigarettes to be a translator, not at all. You could become one in your blue flannel pajamas, your face smeared with Clearsil. You did. — Elizabeth Mckenzie

I love being part of the team. — Jacqueline McKenzie

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion. — Dennis Lehane

I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life. — Bret McKenzie

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it. — Charles E. McKenzie

You told me you wanted time. I've given it to you, and I'll give you as long as you need, McKenzie. I love you." He tucks a lock of my hair behind my ear. "You're worth waiting a decade for. — Sandy Williams

The many species of shark hunting for food in the seawater immediately south of New Orleans that morning which was individually particular morning had a feeding frenzy, until they finally drifted away, fully replete, into their own space within the deeper waters of the Gulf. — Ian McKenzie-Vincent

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi. — Jacqueline McKenzie

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant. — Bret McKenzie

Still, it's really frustrating me that there doesn't seem to be anything in my closet that's appropriate to wear to an exorcism. — Paige McKenzie

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life. — Kenneth McKenzie Wark

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world. — Bret McKenzie

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen. — Bret McKenzie

McKenzie was Caroline's primary wingman. They had matching Coach bags to prove it. — Amy LaPalme

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music. — Bret McKenzie

But, of course, everyone has regrets. Loose ends. Things they could do if they had more time. — Catherine McKenzie

It is better to die as a patriot than to live having abandoned one's country. — Frederick Arthur Mckenzie

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie

She had shaved above the knee, packed her suitcase with her skimpiest lingerie, and the instructions on the Sexy Weekend Fun Box said, "Just Add Texan." What she had not expected was Hunter putting her on a Tex-free diet. — Kate Meader

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal. — Charles E. McKenzie

Within these margins I find my serenity - with a blank page and a pencil, I am set free. — Jordyn McKenzie

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly. — Jacqueline McKenzie

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family. — Bret McKenzie

You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. I'll back you with Dad. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard. — Catherine McKenzie

I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon. — Bret McKenzie

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers. — Charles E. McKenzie

One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words. — Bret McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair. — Scott McKenzie