Top 100 Mcdonald Quotes

#1. There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

Leo Hindery

#2. ...they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.

Ian McDonald

#3. There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

John McDonald

#4. You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

Norm Coleman

#5. Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

Ray Kroc

#6. My husband doesn't have to try to add to my comedy he just does being himself and saying & doing the things he does. We have a good friendship & I think couples can relate to our dynamic and sometimes out lack of dynamics too.

Heather McDonald

#7. And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer.

Donald Hall

#8. How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

Michael Moore

#9. We never thought the first movie would bomb.

Kevin McDonald

#10. The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.

Ian McDonald

#11. There's a McDonald's down the street. We'll get you a Happy Meal. Maybe that'll make you happier.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside.

Philip K. Dick

#13. It is always dangerous when your enemy has a sense of humor. Ask Batman.

Ian McDonald

#14. One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.

Audra McDonald

#15. The men had to use condoms. You didn't want to get hit by that stuff, flying. I said be kind and I did something worse than flying cum. I threw up all over him. I couldn't stop throwing up. That's not sexy.

Ian McDonald

#16. Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of instructing the ribosomes that build the proteins that make up the cells of your body. Ninety-eight per cent of your DNA just sits there doing nothing. Taking up space in the gene.

Ian McDonald

#17. Politics, Garrett thought. Like a food fight without the internal logic.

Jack McDonald Burnett

#18. With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.

Roger McDonald

#19. Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

Eric Schlosser

#20. A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

John McDonald

#21. I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Paul McDonald

#22. My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since.

Nadine Velazquez

#23. A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.

Bernadette McDonald

#24. I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.

David Bazan

#25. I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can.

Danny Meyer

#26. There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Don Meyer

#27. I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Chip Conley

#28. Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily?

Jerry Seinfeld

#29. Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.

Newt Gingrich

#30. Wow. That hurt. Like a lot." Jared's face scrunches up in pain as he struggles to sit. "What did you have for breakfast? A bowl full of steroids?

T.L. McDonald

#31. I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Neal Barnard

#32. Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for.

Richard Kadrey

#33. Life is stretching to achieve goals, and exploring new things, and struggling to overcome obstacles. Life is not just breathing in and out. I think immortality would make all these things that add up to our lives hollow and meaningless.

Kevin McDonald

#34. What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.

Kevin McDonald

#35. Trust me, Joe. You're not a cowboy. The only cows you ever saw as a kid came under a plastic wrap in the grocery store or in a paper wrapped from McDonald's. (Tee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.

Steve Martin

#37. You realise you're going to owe me dinner after this, right?"
"How does McDonald's sound?"
"Inadequate.

Sarah Mayberry

#38. Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

Gregory McDonald

#39. I miss you.
Were sweeter words ever texted?

Abby McDonald

#40. A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.

Roger McDonald

#41. The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards.

Thalia

#42. There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Ian McDonald

#43. I don't know what pressures there are these days.

Trevor McDonald

#44. Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.

Leon Trotsky

#45. Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.

Joel McDonald

#46. Being a running back helped me tremendously. It taught me judgement in the defense and how to judge the football.

Tommy McDonald

#47. God has just always put me in the right place I guess.

Tommy McDonald

#48. When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn't there, Burger King, etc.

Peter Morton

#49. Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and I don't see a Baby Doll anymore. I just see Alice Faye Dahl, Poker Champion Badass. With obvious, heavy influences from Ronald McDonald, of course.

Elle Lothlorien

#50. Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

Craig McDonald

#51. I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

#52. Coffee is a drink for grownups. No kid ever likes coffee. It's psychoactive. Coffee is the drug of memory.

Ian McDonald

#53. Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, said, There are three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the right time. 2. Knowing you are there. 3. Taking action.

Jack Canfield

#54. The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run

Ian McDonald

#55. I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

John Stamos

#56. Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

Roger McDonald

#57. You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.

Abby McDonald

#58. Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that!

Colton Haynes

#59. You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

Dave Haywood

#60. The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

Duff McDonald

#61. There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.

Stephen Colbert

#62. For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

Katherine Jenkins

#63. And how did you find the East?'
'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.

Ian McDonald

#64. When we understand how precious each moment is, we can treat each breath, each moment, as a newborn baby.

Michelle McDonald

#65. If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

Robert De Niro

#66. I've never had a love letter before. Not from anyone. It is a most wonderful thing to receive. I realise that it makes a present to me of your life, not just your love.

Anthony McDonald

#67. I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

Heather McDonald

#68. Everyone had their own agenda. She just had to stop reacting emotionally: decipher the real motives for their behaviour without taking every word as a personal attack.

Abby McDonald

#69. So you try, and try, to move past it and forget about them, but it's like they're stuck in your head
you can't just flip a switch and stop loving them! So you hate yourself for it because you know it's no use, but nothing you do seems to ever make a difference.

Abby McDonald

#70. I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

Paul McDonald

#71. I'm an evil, nature-hating girl now, but for some reason, that feels better than pretending to like things I don't. I'm done smiling and nodding along for some other guy's sake.

Abby McDonald

#72. I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.

Megan McDonald

#73. We do not find meaning in life; we make meaning from life.

Quinn McDonald

#74. You're so terrestrial,

Ian McDonald

#75. The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.

Ian McDonald

#76. The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

Ray Kroc

#77. The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

Bruce McDonald

#78. I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

Summer Phoenix

#79. It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.

Eric Schlosser

#80. I love getting older," I muse as I carefully begin to peel the layers away. "You're closer to death, but there are presents.

Abby McDonald

#81. Where am I? (Nick) Hospital. (Kyrian) Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald's. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#82. I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.

Frank Woolley

#83. Where there are drones, there will always be police. Where there are police, there will always be violence.

Ian McDonald

#84. I tried to recall where I had been at sunup that day. It was in St. Louis, Missouri, where they have that giant McDonald's thing towering over the city,

Barbara Kingsolver

#85. In her mind, Em was a deranged ballerina-child who smelled like bubblegum and only ate McDonald's Happy Meals.

Sarah Addison Allen

#86. I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.

Kathleen Hanna

#87. If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

Chrissy Teigen

#88. I lost a Tony award to Broadway legend Audra McDonald when I was twelve so I've been a bitter bitch since before my first period.

Anna Kendrick

#89. Here's what the kids get. They get free McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken for a year, and 52 six-packs of Pepsi. And I'm thinking, well, actually, it might be healthier if they were taking steroids.

David Letterman

#90. What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

Roger James McDonald

#91. The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Trevor McDonald

#92. Every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.

Meg Cabot

#93. Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

Will Yun Lee

#94. Family is what works.

Ian McDonald

#95. Golden Arches theory: no two countries with a McDonald's have ever fought in a war.

Steven Pinker

#96. Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.
-Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#97. I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

Alethea Kontis

#98. [From a typical McDonald's meal] this is how the laboratory measured our meal: soda (100%), milk shake (78%), salad dressing (65%), chicken nuggets (56%), cheeseburger (52%), and French fries (23%).

Michael Pollan

#99. McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.

Ray Kroc

#100. The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Andy Warhol

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