Macbride Quotes

#1. The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Sean MacBride

#2. It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

Sean MacBride

#3. Guthrie handed him the mug, a wee pout pulling his pale face out of shape. With his semi-skimmed skin, faint ginger hair, and blond eyebrows he looked like a ghost that had been at the pies. "Milk, two sugars.

Stuart MacBride

#4. Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

Christie Watson

#5. Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Sean MacBride

#6. What about Ding-Dong?"

"Detective Inspector Bell couldn't find his arse with both hands if you duct-taped them to it. Come on.

Stuart MacBride

#7. Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Sean MacBride

#8. When one had sufficient control over fantasy, one had no need of reality.

Roger MacBride Allen

#9. You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

Jack Kirby

#10. Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn

Samuel R. Delany

#11. Finnie kicked a packet of washing powder. "Why am I surrounded by morons? Did I tick the wrong bloody box for room service? I wanted scrambled eggs on toast, but they delivered a family-sized bag of idiots!

Stuart MacBride

#12. Must be nice to be a seagull. You eat, you sleep, you shag, and if you're having a bad day you can shite on everyone from a great height. Doesn't even have to be a bad day, you can do it just for fun.

Stuart MacBride

#13. The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

Sean MacBride

#14. And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Roger Lea MacBride

#15. Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

Bob Marley

#16. You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

Sean MacBride

#17. Ina stood and shuffled over tot he urn on the fireplace. Stroked it with a twisted finger. "How are we supposed to get more consecrated soil, now? Taxi drivers always look at you so strangely when you get in with a shovel and say, 'Take me to the nearest graveyard.

Stuart MacBride

#18. To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

Auliq Ice

#19. Why so surprised, White Wolf? he murmurs, smiling a little. There is something in the way he says my Elite name, a secret sweetness.
Why so surprised that you are worthy?

Marie Lu

#20. WPC Buchan might not know much about art, but she knew what gave her the fucking willies, and these things took the hairy biscuit.

Stuart MacBride

#21. I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.

Ernest MacBride

#22. shook his head, sending his jowls wobbling. 'No chance.' He checked his watch. 'Show doesn't

Stuart MacBride

#23. The only way to measure our progress is to read about what this country used to be.

Roger Lea MacBride

#24. Nah, mostly they're just students. Bit of weed, bit of booze, bit of studying, bit of pining away in their rooms wondering why nobody wants to shag them.

Stuart MacBride

#25. Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.

Sean MacBride

#26. Julie stretched her neck and arched her back to get the kinks out.

Kelsey MacBride

#27. I find rap, dance, and hip-hop vaguely terrifying. I don't have the right clothes to be into them, and it all seems a bit intense. I file these genres along with heavy metal and speed metal under people who would kill, then eat me.

Caitlin Moran

#28. It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Sean MacBride

#29. The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.

Stuart MacBride

#30. A thoughtful pause and then: 'Maybe to make it easy to find, but look like it's hard to find, so you'd find it but think it wasn't meant to be found, even though you only really found it because someone wanted it to be found?' Logan

Stuart MacBride

#31. My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

Valerie June

#32. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all

Ernest Hemingway,

#33. She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.

Roger Lea MacBride

#34. Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Albrecht Durer

#35. Logan battered to the end of 'Started Out With Nothin', drove in silence for a minute, then launched into 'Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies'. Making up half of the words as he went along.

Stuart MacBride

#36. Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles.

Stuart MacBride

#37. For a new leader of Iraq, he said, "We would accept a Kurd, a Christian or even a Jew." But not, he said, a Shiite.

Anonymous

#38. It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#39. Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

Storm Jameson

#40. The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

Terry Pratchett