Norman MacCaig Quotes

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

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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When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Steve Coogan

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The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

Steven Hatfill

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I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

Rob James-Collier

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In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Rosanna Arquette

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We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

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I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

Josh Duhamel

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Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller

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I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Desmond Tutu

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A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Ansel Elgort

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These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Peter Straub

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