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Norman MacCaig Quotes

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: November 14, 1910 - January 23, 1996

Topics

Nature Love My Own Own Hills Being

I met Toni, my wife, when we were cast opposite each other in a musical.

Wife Opposite Cast Other Met Were

In general, the human race is still a young organism.

Jesse Kellerman

Young Race Human Human Race Still

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

Good Think Security Military Without

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.

John Henrik Clarke

King People Thought Doubt Islam

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Me Career Triumph Years Audience

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Ride Childhood Climb Outdoors Trees

It was a beautiful custom. When a person who had a break of good luck entered a cafe and ordered a cup of coffee, he didn't pay just for one, but for two cups, allowing someone less fortunate who entered later to have a cup of coffee for free.

Luciano De Crescenzo

Good Beautiful Coffee Luck Good Luck

Growing up where I grew up, we looked to athletes. They were our first heroes. They came from the same places we came from. I mean, you can't watch TV and see someone who is successful that you can really relate to. That person isn't real; he doesn't exist. But athletes traveled the world, had these big houses and gave their families a better life.

Life Growing Up World Better Someone

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

Giving Audience See Coming Something

I don't carry cash often. I'm all about the plastic.

Brendan Robinson

Plastic Cash Carry About Often

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

Work Confidence You Mean Project

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

Paul von Hindenburg

Strength People Succeed Impossible

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