Mcleay Author Quotes & Sayings

Your wife's willingness to allow a daughter to grow inside her who had, by all laws of probability, a fifty-percent chance of inheriting your face, is something you should view as a compliment. Perhaps the greatest compliment a woman can give a man. — Herman Koch

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES - THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED. — John Bevere

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make. — Orrin Woodward

Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what they expect to happen and what actually happens. Or, as seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal put it when he first came up with the concept, "Nothing produces laughter more than a surprising disproportion between that which one expects and that which one sees. — Joel Warner

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong. — Craig Lancaster

Hearthstone. Magnus and I will go in, find Thor's hammer, and free Gunilla. — Rick Riordan

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been. — Billy Corgan

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life
which is fundamentally dependent on light
to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that. — Isaac Asimov

In the preface of "The Rifles"
"Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing." Barnabas Piryuaq
"Well, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created." Jan Welzi 1933. — William T. Vollmann

Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've worked with a lot of great directors. — Catherine Keener

The anonymity of the internet is a dangerous but powerful thing - to any fool who will listen. — P.S. Bartlett

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. — Todd Akin