John McGahern Quotes

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

John McGahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 12, 1934 - March 30, 2006

Topics

LifeRomanticWordsWorldStartSee

I think the kids that struggle are way more prepared for real life.

Jimmy John Liautaud

LifeStruggleThinkWayMoreReal

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Jennifer Capriati

MysteryKnowSayQuestionHappened

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

GreatManTalentWritingActMay

If you speed up your trip, you'll miss a lot of interesting sights and also wear yourself to a frazzle.

Michael Frome

YourselfInterestingSpeedYouUp

Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.

John Wycliffe

GodFaithTrustManPersonSin

If you're extremely confident, taking a loss doesn't bother you.

Stanley Druckenmiller

ConfidentLossYouBotherTaking

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Robert Byrd

LifeFamilyWallsPeopleMeLook

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

Rob Lowe

MeCoolFamousWayNeverBeing

Even if Koch Industries had a financial interest in the Keystone XL pipeline, what possibly could be wrong with that? Perhaps more important, under what circumstances would such an interest be worthy of a congressional inquisition?

Mike Pompeo

FinancialWrongCircumstancesMore

The nuclear deal with Iran's radical clerics and their military junta is the most dangerous and potentially deadly action that the Obama administration has yet taken.

Mike Pompeo

ActionDangerousMilitaryRadical

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

Dick Dale

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Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

AgeMyselfPeopleFaceThinkLook

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