Macdonell Quotes

#1. England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War... I love it.

Ian Hislop

#2. What about Wee Squirl? --Rose MacDonell

Jen Holling

#3. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

Ray Stannard Baker

#4. Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

W.B.Yeats

#5. Snap. Ka-chunk. That's how I spell the sound of a doorknob turning.

David Wong

#6. Don't think of people in the mass. This gives you a blurred view

Claude C. Hopkins

#7. Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#8. I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

Dakota Johnson

#9. Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.

Eve Ensler

#10. When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

Joyce DiDonato

#12. Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread.

Tessa Dare

#13. Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

William Gurnall

#14. The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.

Harold Robbins