Top 77 Mcintosh Quotes
#1. We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
Fiona McIntosh
#2. I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I'll miss my best friend or your child, who was every inch a son to me.
Fiona McIntosh
#3. Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.
Sheryl Sandberg
#4. I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.
Neve McIntosh
#5. I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.
Neve McIntosh
#6. Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
Fiona McIntosh
#7. We sat in silence, staring out into the street, listening to the creak of the porch swing, the crickets, and the occasional gunshot.
Will McIntosh
#8. Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
Neve McIntosh
#9. I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
Will McIntosh
#10. When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!
David McIntosh
#11. I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.
Neve McIntosh
#12. I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
Peggy McIntosh
#14. relationships are the real, evolving, living systems of human culture.
Steve McIntosh
#15. I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going to my mum's house in Ayrshire and being able to sit on a cliff by the sea.
Neve McIntosh
#16. One question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.
Peggy McIntosh
#17. The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that's much, much worse.
Will McIntosh
#18. Maybe part of having integrity is surrounding yourself with people who have integrity, so that yours is never tested. All
Will McIntosh
#19. I knew her type. She'd had some bad dating experiences and now she focused more on what she didn't want than what she did want. Avoidance dating. She was already angry with me for the thoughtless things I would potentially do if we dated. When
Will McIntosh
#20. There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
#21. Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you'd meet her at your cousin's wedding?
Will McIntosh
#22. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
Peggy McIntosh
#23. The mind always found its way back to baseline.
Will McIntosh
#24. I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.
Neve McIntosh
#25. Because I don't really want to fall in love. Nathan is safe because he's unattainable.
Will McIntosh
#26. Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.
Will McIntosh
#27. I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.
Neve McIntosh
#28. I'd noticed it because it was so weirdly out of place, a defiant crimson McIntosh in an army of dull green Granny Smiths.
Michael Grant
#29. With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
Neve McIntosh
#30. The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your grandfather's touch,'she'd tell Luc, with a wicked glimmer in her eye.
Fiona McIntosh
#31. I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
Fiona McIntosh
#32. Right leg gone? Her right leg? She couldn't see anything except the man hanging over and a gold-coloured ceiling, high, high above. "This is a hospital?" she asked.
"No, no. A dating centre.
Will McIntosh
#33. Pain has its own half-life; words don't change that. There
Will McIntosh
#34. In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.
Neve McIntosh
#35. The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
David McIntosh
#36. I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.
Neve McIntosh
#37. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
Peggy McIntosh
#38. The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
#39. There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.
Maria Jane McIntosh
#40. White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.
Peggy McIntosh
#41. In my psychology class, I learned that bettors are more confident about the horses they pick after they place their bets.
Will McIntosh
#42. Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.
Neve McIntosh
#43. Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.
Maria Jane McIntosh
#44. They had turned brown or blue and rotted. Brown and blue, the real colors of death. Who made black the color of death? Black was the color of night, and the potential of a cool breeze. Just
Will McIntosh
#45. This is the future," Lycan said. "Connecting people to each other directly.
Will McIntosh
#46. In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.
Neve McIntosh
#47. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
Peggy McIntosh
#48. Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
Peggy McIntosh
#49. Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.
Neve McIntosh
#50. As a kid, I fell in love with the 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.' I don't know why. I liked the werewolf, Gamera, The Hulk, but I loved the Creature.
Will McIntosh
#51. Aspirations after the holy,
the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.
Maria Jane McIntosh
#52. Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.
Peggy McIntosh
#53. She had nine hundred thirty-one viewers at the moment. Another sixty-nine, and sponsorships would kick in.
Will McIntosh
#54. I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.
Neve McIntosh
#55. My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.
Neve McIntosh
#56. Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.
Will McIntosh
#57. Audiences are a wee bit more chatty in New York than in London.
Neve McIntosh
#59. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.
Peggy McIntosh
#60. The profile's the key, the absolute key to modern dating. If you can get quality people to look at your profile, it becomes a numbers game. The more views, the more hits. The more hits, the more the odds climb that you'll find a compatible mate.
Will McIntosh
#61. Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.
Neve McIntosh
#62. I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.
Neve McIntosh
#63. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
Peggy McIntosh
#64. If indeed there was an intruder in the McIntosh house, it would be deeply satisfying to apprehend him. Barb McIntosh suspected a sex offender, and, if she was right, Em knew exactly where she'd target the electrodes.
Kristan Higgins
#65. I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.
Neve McIntosh
#66. Fashion isn't something I madly follow. I tend just to wear what I like and what fits me well.
Neve McIntosh
#67. There's nothing wrong with your daughter, Mrs. McIntosh. I said we're not sleeping together. I didn't say I didn't want to.
Anna Banks
#68. It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.
Neve McIntosh
#69. I've told you before, Salmeo, you may be more woman than man but you cannot think like one of us.
Fiona McIntosh
#70. For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.
Neve McIntosh
#71. For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
Fiona McIntosh
#72. My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.
Will McIntosh
#73. I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'
Neve McIntosh
#74. What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
Fiona McIntosh
#75. You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.
Neve McIntosh
#76. If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.
Pat McIntosh
#77. Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'..
Peggy McIntosh
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