George MacDonald Quotes

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

George MacDonald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905

Topics

WorkGodBestQualityThinkMust

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

John Doolittle

TimeCommitmentMemoryAmericaLost

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

Mayte Garcia

MeYouKnowWhyDifficultUs

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual.

John Irving

IntellectualFollowModernCentury

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

ExperienceWaitingMeWineAttention

I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running.

Sue Hubbell

TimeTreeBalanceStartLoseDown

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Deborah Eisenberg

PeopleAmazingWritingYouFiction

I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art.

Cornelia Parker

LoveArtSellingEmbarrassedMarket

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

Craig Bruce

YouBackPlaceFirstFinishedPut

There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

Chris Pratt

ManNothingGrown ManGiantThan

Of course I'm happy with my time in professional wrestling. I met some great people, I met my wife, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

CM Punk

GreatTimeWifeHappyPeopleWorld

When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

WomenStyleWalkMeWorldChampion

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Preston Manning

DieOldOrderGetLikeGuess

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