William Mcilvanney Famous Quotes & Sayings

A nose in the air just made it easier to cut the throat beneath it. And when it came to that choice, why, he never hesitated. As sure as any force of Nature, — Steven Erikson

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. — Michael J. Fox

I thought that there was only one kind of love, one that developed instantaneously and struck you like a bolt of lightning, made you irrational and selfish like it did my parents. I realized too late that love took different forms and the one we had - " He cupped her face. "It was there, the first day we met, growing "gradually from friendship into what's inside my heart now."
He brought her hand to his chest. "It's there, steady, constant, making my heart beat for you, making my heart race when you're near, making my heart sing like a goddamn canary when you're happy. I never thought this kind of love existed until I had lost you. — Marian Tee

You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, "The World of the Wondrous." It is the world where you do not judge by appearances. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I know that and I feel that. — Vitali Klitschko

He had taken to asking himself WWPD? (What Would Pia Do?) — Thea Harrison

The fault is in the system and not in the men. — Peter Drucker

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world. — Tony McCoy

The children are all crying in their pens
and the surf carries their cries away.
They are old men who have seen too much,
their mouths are full of dirty clothes,
the tongues poverty, tears like puss.
The surf pushes their cries back.
Listen. — Anne Sexton

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. — Rose Schneiderman

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear. — Bruno Dumont

For I bring not a religion ... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual. — Corrie Ten Boom

I would have followed Derek to the edge of the world, if he had wanted me to. And then perhaps we would have had to hold hands because it must be quite windy at the edge of the world. — Phoebe Stone

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl. — Estelle