#the

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#even #nothing #own #person #power

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#expect #often #people #rather #reputation

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, "I really want to play this guy!" ↗

— John C. McGinley

#around #came #down #felt #five

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#always #answer #bare #down #drying

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#end #finally #going #grow #grow up

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#galadriel #the-fellowship-of-the-ring #the-lord-of-the-ring #beauty

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#child #closer #disorienting #doing #get

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#intolerable #label #other #those #tolerance

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. ↗

— Roger McGough

#good #i #know #me #off

People can put their best poems straight onto the web. ↗

— Roger McGough

#onto #people #poems #put #straight