#thin

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#hearing #i #i always #man #poet

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #classroom #come #desk #heaped

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

— George MacDonald

#best work #dregs #exhaustion #god #i

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. ↗

— George MacDonald

#i think #our #out #over #sympathy

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#caught #domestic #dominated #get #growing

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. ↗

— George MacDonald

#deserves #first #first thing #kindness #second

I don't think my parents know what I do. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i do #know #parents #think

I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.' ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#designer #direction #first #front #gave

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#create #everything #i #intent #life

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #bought #built #business #center