#ok

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book. ↗

— John McGahern

#always #book #church #churches #evening

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space. ↗

— John McGahern

#book #community #concentrated #concentrates #dominant

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. ↗

— John McGahern

#alice #billy #book #called #charming

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. ↗

— John McGahern

#away #back #books #boy #bring

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#faces #few #however #i #intelligence

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#dial #dirty #equivalents #i #ken

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#be grateful #becomes #grateful #idea #man

As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#as far as #belongs #face #faces #far

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick! ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#comfortable #couple #ever #feel #found

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! ↗

— George Takei

#great #i #like #look #marathon