Mcclintock Quotes

#1. I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

Barbara McClintock

#2. When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.

Eddie McClintock

#3. If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off ... no matter what they say.

Barbara McClintock

#4. I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.

Tom McClintock

#5. I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

Robert Sietsema

#6. Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

Eddie McClintock

#7. Ethan, but I'm certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid."
"And you're not stupid."
"Not as far as I can tell" ...

MK McClintock

#8. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

Tom Wopat

#10. If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Tom McClintock

#11. Hide an advantage and you double its value.

Anthony Ryan

#12. I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

Eddie McClintock

#13. Experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

Tom McClintock

#14. You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

Eddie McClintock

#15. Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It's pretty simple.

Tom McClintock

#16. I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone.

Marc Cohn

#17. The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

Tom McClintock

#18. If it ain.t broke, don't fix it!

Neale McClintock

#19. A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

Tom McClintock

#20. Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

Mae West

#21. Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

Eddie McClintock

#22. Some call us unnatural or demons, but that doesn't change the fact that we too were human once. We have feelings; we feel pain and there is no shame in wanting to live.

Karmen Lee

#23. I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.

Barbara McClintock

#24. The Colt rested in her lap. "You better wake up in the morning, Mr. Latimer because I don't want to have to explain a dead man in my cabin to the sheriff."
- Emma in "Emma of Crooked Creek

MK McClintock

#25. It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

Barbara McClintock

#26. Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Tom McClintock

#27. Pull yourself together," I told myself sternly. "You have to stay positive. You'll never make it if you give up.

Norah McClintock

#28. Finding her first smile since she read the telegram, Isabelle let out a soft sigh. "I sometimes wonder if you're even real, Mr. Gallagher."
He smiled in reply. "Oh, I'm real Isabelle. I promise you that."
-Gabriel and Isabelle in GALLAGHER'S HOPE

MK McClintock

#29. Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

Norton Juster

#30. I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

Eddie McClintock

#31. From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform.

Anne McClintock

#32. Put me down."
Of course, the man couldn't hear her. She barely heard the scratchy whisper.
"I said - "
"I heard you, Mrs. McBride, but I'm not putting you down.

MK McClintock