Top 82 Mackintosh Quotes
#1. To-day she had watched magic dancing in a mackintosh, and she was at a loss.
Stella Benson
#2. If it is foolish and impudent to ask for victory in a war (on the ground that God might be expected to know best), it would be equally foolish and impudent to put on a mackintosh - does not God know best whether you ought to be wet or dry?
C.S. Lewis
#3. The Cigarette had a mackintosh which put him more or less above these contrarieties. But I had to bear the brunt uncovered. I began to remember that nature was a woman. My companion, in a rosier temper, listened with great satisfaction to my Jeremiads, and ironically concurred.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#4. A clue! From M!"
"Who's M?"
"Maybe M is for Mackintosh! Maybe Grabes ans Mackintosh are in cahoots!"
"Or maybe M is for Mom. Also, who says 'cahoots'?
Mac Barnett
#5. There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.
Peter Capaldi
#6. Cats are cats ... the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran
Lilian Jackson Braun
#7. unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977).
Lawrence W. Barsalou
#8. weak-chinned balding man in his late forties wearing a department-store suit and a mackintosh coat. He was the sort of man that young women instinctively avoided
Daniel Silva
#10. Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#12. I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh
#13. Gradually, without my noticing, my grief has changed shape; from a raw, jagged pain that won't be silenced to a dull, rounded ache I'm able to lock away at the back of my mind.
Clare Mackintosh
#14. I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
Cameron Mackintosh
#15. I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
Cameron Mackintosh
#16. It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#17. Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.
Clare Mackintosh
#18. I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
Cameron Mackintosh
#19. One cannot conquer the evil in himself by resisting it ... but by transmuting its energies into other forms. The energy that expresses itself in the form of evil is the same energy which expresses itself in the form of good; and thus the one may be transmuted into the other.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#22. I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.
Clare Mackintosh
#23. Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
Cameron Mackintosh
#24. I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
Cameron Mackintosh
#27. By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
Cameron Mackintosh
#28. I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
Cameron Mackintosh
#29. The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
James Mackintosh
#30. I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
Cameron Mackintosh
#31. It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
Cameron Mackintosh
#32. I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
Cameron Mackintosh
#33. I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
Cameron Mackintosh
#34. The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.
James Mackintosh
#35. The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
Cameron Mackintosh
#37. Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.
Clare Mackintosh
#38. You must remember that he was a boy. That he had a mother. And that her heart is breaking.
Clare Mackintosh
#39. What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#40. Everything has changed. The instant the car slid across the wet tarmac, my whole life changed. I can see everything clearly, as though I am standing on the sidelines. I can't go on like this.
Clare Mackintosh
#41. I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
Cameron Mackintosh
#42. My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
Cameron Mackintosh
#43. My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
Cameron Mackintosh
#45. A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
James Mackintosh
#46. Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#51. Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh
#52. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
James Mackintosh
#53. I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
Cameron Mackintosh
#54. Consciousness is non-physical.
You are the witness of the wonder.
You are in your own world. You are free. You are liberated. You are nothing to do with anything.
Michael Mackintosh
#55. Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
#56. An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Cameron Mackintosh
#57. They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room
Clare Mackintosh
#58. The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.
Cameron Mackintosh
#60. Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
James Mackintosh
#61. Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
James Mackintosh
#62. A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor ...
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#63. My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
Cameron Mackintosh
#64. Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.
James Mackintosh
#65. Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
#66. Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
Cameron Mackintosh
#68. I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh
#69. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
Cameron Mackintosh
#70. The Eternal way allows you to have all the success you want in life WITHOUT the pain and inner bankruptcy.
Michael Mackintosh
#71. You must be Independent, Independent, Independent - don't talk so much but do more - go your own way and let your neighbour go his... Shake off all the props - the props tradition and authority give you - and go alone - crawl - stumble - stagger - but go alone.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
#72. It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
James Mackintosh
#74. My steps feel lighter now and I realize it's because I'm running toward something, and not away from it.
Clare Mackintosh
#75. Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
Cameron Mackintosh
#76. It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
#78. People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#79. Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.
James Mackintosh
#81. Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
