Meg Mcmillin Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a time the English knew who they were. — Anna Pavlova

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive. — Pat Barker

The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder. — Julie Dillon

Elizabeth's whole style of rule was pragmatic and free from preconceptions. It was not that she had no strategic aims, but they were broad and simple. God had entrusted her with three things: a realm to defend; a church to lead in the true way; and a people to protect, both against foreign enemies and against themselves. — David Loades

FEARON, HENRY BRADSHAW. Sketches of America (1817-1818). Narrative of a Journey of 5,000 Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America. Second Edition, London: 1818. — Anonymous

What the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction ... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities. — Rollo May

Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man ... — Albert Einstein

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical. — Cinco Paul

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists — Mikhail Botvinnik

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care! — David Toop

There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed. — Kingsley Amis

She needs to decide if it's me she wants. I sure as hell won't be the consolation prize. — Corinne Michaels

She could not distinguish between contrition and self-abasement; between acknowledgment and blame. — Stephen R. Donaldson

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things — Leo Tolstoy