Mackoul Quotes

#1. Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alice Oswald

#3. My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Clint Eastwood

#4. Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.

Taylor Lautner

#5. People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.

Ronald Everett Capps

#6. It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

Mike Honda

#7. We're playing for our lives now.

Bob Melvin

#8. I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Monique Coleman

#9. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederic Bastiat