Norman MacCaig Quotes

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Norman MacCaig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Jessica Alba

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I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

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There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.

Anand Mahindra

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I'm so lucky that I found comedy and that I get to do it for a living.

Michelle Wolf

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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor.

Colin Trevorrow

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When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

Bryan Fuller

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Plato

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But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.

Tim Scott

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We've been married for 60 years. We don't buy anything anymore without being on the same page.

Norman Braman

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I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Nicole Kidman

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