#read

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

#being #book #convinced #intellectual #likely

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. ↗

— John McCarthy

#because #bread #cannot #consequence #fights

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. ↗

— John McCarthy

#convince #however #rally #rarely #side

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself! ↗

— Paul McCartney

#back #buy #car #chauffeur #could

Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#available #children #cook #easy #highly

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#been #believes #comeback #country #cut

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#criticisms #editorial #feedback #free #friends

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#editor #harry #harry potter #head #i

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#grace #guy #i #knew #only

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#domestic #domestic life #ex-wives #go #i