Top 100 Macleod Quotes
#1. MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
Ernest K. Gann
#2. In the morning, her head swimming with chiaroscuro dreams of shadows and light, she awoke in the pink room of the MacLeod House. Jason was already dressed, and stared at her from the foot of
Robert Levy
#3. How can ye find grace if ye give none?"
~ Andrew MacLeod ~
Life As A Lie
Rebecca Perere
#4. Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
Billy Connolly
#5. I knew I chose you for a reason." She playfully punched his shoulder. "You chose me? If I remember correctly, Fallon MacLeod - and I always remember correctly - I was the one who picked you. You wanted nothing to do with me.
Donna Grant
#6. One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief,
Adam Nicolson
#7. I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
Frederick Banting
#8. We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
Gavin MacLeod
#9. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.
Ken MacLeod
#10. The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.
Ken MacLeod
#11. I collapsed next to him on the bed and he slowly peeled off the rest of my wardrobe. We made love by moonlight.
Janice Macleod
#13. I thought you were a folk singer.'
'No, I just need a haircut. In point of fact, I can't tell one note from another.'
'That needn't prevent you from being a folk singer.
Charlotte MacLeod
#14. The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.
Alison MacLeod
#15. But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
Gavin MacLeod
#16. Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
Hugh MacLeod
#17. The early Celts lived in an enormous region, stretching from modern Turkey through eastern and central Europe (including much of modern day Switzerland, Austria, Germany and northern Italy), and westwards and northwards into much of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Britain and Ireland.
Sharon Paice MacLeod
#18. And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.
Alistair MacLeod
#20. To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.
Alison MacLeod
#21. Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.
Ken MacLeod
#22. As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one's self to their number.
Ken MacLeod
#23. Here's a secret for ye, mo chridhe," Maggie smiled, smoothing his hair back from his forehead, "nothing ever dies. The gift stays the same, no matter the wrapping.
Shannon MacLeod
#24. If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.
Hugh MacLeod
#25. For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
Ken MacLeod
#26. I'm not scared any more,' said Midge. 'Thank you, Kevin. Sometimes you can be very kind.'
'Yes,' said Kevin. 'And if you tell that to any of the other trolls I will pull off your nose and feed it to a bear.
Doug MacLeod
#27. I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
Gavin MacLeod
#28. I feel like I'm going to die,' he says.
'Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?'
'Only if you do it quietly.'
'I met this girl last night. I need your advice.'
'Come back later.'
'No. You might be dead.
Doug MacLeod
#29. The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Ken MacLeod
#31. There is only one way this can end: with the kind of defeat that makes a people feel that their preachers have lied to them, their leaders have deserted them, that the world is against them and that God is dead.
Ken MacLeod
#32. Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.
Hugh MacLeod
#33. I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure.
Gavin MacLeod
#34. Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
Hugh MacLeod
#35. All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
Ken MacLeod
#36. None of its components were conscious beings. As post-conscious AIs, they were well beyond that. They
Ken MacLeod
#37. Little men, stuck in little positions of little authority, are always the worst.
Ian R. MacLeod
#39. There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.
Alistair MacLeod
#40. I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
Gavin MacLeod
#41. Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?' I asked.
'You cannot take these flowers,' said Zoran. 'They belong to the government.
Doug MacLeod
#42. Are you sure this is a good idea?' I ask.
'No,' says Amber. 'Let's do it.
Doug MacLeod
#43. Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant ... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.
Gavin MacLeod
#44. Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
Alistair MacLeod
#45. We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
Gavin MacLeod
#46. I knew from the beginning it was hopeless, but it's possible to love without hope.
Ken MacLeod
#47. Had always believed an immersive virtual reality afterlife was possible in principle. Maybe
Ken MacLeod
#48. Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.
Hugh MacLeod
#49. He stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
Hugh MacLeod
#50. A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.
Alistair MacLeod
#52. Kindle, ah,' said Baxter, 'takes me back.
Ken MacLeod
#53. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
Hugh MacLeod
#54. Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.
William MacLeod Raine
#55. I'm not holding out a whole lot of hope for you," she snapped. "And quit calling me that. I liked it when I thought you loved me, but I'm not particularly fond of your endearments right now. Or you, for that matter.
Shannon MacLeod
#57. You don't understand,' I said. 'I need to be with her. With every fibre of my being I ache for her. I'm in love.'
'I do understand,' said Zoran. 'It was same for me with Mrs Zoran when I first meet her. But the feeling goes away after few hours.
Doug MacLeod
#59. What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
Ken MacLeod
#60. There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
Gavin MacLeod
#61. Anyway ... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it.
Ken MacLeod
#62. If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
Hugh MacLeod
#63. I'm going to make the coffee, and then we're going to have the personal space talk.
Shannon MacLeod
#64. I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
Alistair MacLeod
#65. Carlyle spread her hands. 'I speculated that it was the remains of the starship that took the Eurydiceans to the planet. This seems to have been borne out.' She smiled. 'It transmitted a defensive virus that contained Microsoft patches.
Ken MacLeod
#66. I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.
Hugh MacLeod
#67. he - I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun -
Charlotte MacLeod
#68. I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
Gavin MacLeod
#69. No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
Alistair MacLeod
#70. Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.
Ken MacLeod
#71. When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.
Hugh MacLeod
#72. If you're looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something.
Hugh MacLeod
#73. Even the ones you don't like, you like better in Paris.
Janice Macleod
#74. The defining element of hell was eternal conscious suffering. Here
Ken MacLeod
#75. We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
Gavin MacLeod
#76. The whole point of their spectacular, yet limited, attacks was to manipulate the media into fanning fear and sectarian violence through one-sided reporting,
Michael J. MacLeod
#77. Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....
Charlotte MacLeod
#78. This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
Gavin MacLeod
#79. Don't you have something plain and wholesome, like scotch or bourbon?
Charlotte MacLeod
#80. Green humanism? What's that? Humanism for little green men?
Ken MacLeod
#81. Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic ... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.
Gavin MacLeod
#83. No one here is allowed to die without my permission.
Doug MacLeod
#84. Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
Ken MacLeod
#85. I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.
Ken MacLeod
#86. ...the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink and laugh. That is everything
Janice Macleod
#87. The best Evil Plan offers something much more for people
a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.
Hugh MacLeod
#88. Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
Norman Macleod
#89. Have a story. And make sure it's a good one. A DAMN good one.
Hugh MacLeod
#90. I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
Gavin MacLeod
#91. Fascinating,' said Darvin. 'The mystery of life. The miracle of reproduction. I don't know why I didn't learn all this in school.' 'I did not,' said Orro. 'I read it in an imaginative but broadly accurate illustrated treatise inscribed, if memory serves, on the wall of a municipal pissery.
Ken MacLeod
#92. Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
Janice Macleod
#93. I'm almost used to you showing up without shoes, but where the hell are your pants?
Dani Harper
#94. We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
Gavin MacLeod
#95. Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.
Ken MacLeod
#96. If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.
Alistair MacLeod
#97. THE SEX & CASH THEORY - The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.
Hugh MacLeod
#98. Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.
Doug MacLeod
#99. This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
Gavin MacLeod
#100. The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.
Ken MacLeod
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