Top 100 Mckay Quotes
#1. Wonderful," Rodney said again. "I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?" "That's what I like about you, McKay," Sheppard said. "You're an optimist.
Jo Graham
#2. David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision
James Hollis
#3. You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.
Alice Hoffman
#4. My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay
Larry Smith
#6. President David O. McKay declared: "No greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this Republic and of neighboring Republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States." (Conference Report, April 1950, p. 37.)
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.
Winsor McCay
#8. Connor, if ye doona kill this fledgling, I will. The lad is begging for it.
-Angus McKay about Gregori Holstein
Kerrelyn Sparks
#9. You're about to meet the business end of my shotgun, comin' on McKay land and insulting me and mine.
Lorelei James
#10. I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
#11. I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try.
Amy Lane
#12. National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.
Steve Simmons
#13. Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
Alan McKay
#14. Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.
David O. McKay
#15. For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
Adam McKay
#16. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay
#17. There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
Nellie McKay
#18. A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
David O. McKay
#19. The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.
Adam McKay
#20. Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
David O. McKay
#21. If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
Adam McKay
#22. I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.
Adam McKay
#23. As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.
David O. McKay
#24. I always give myself a little part in every movie.
Adam McKay
#25. Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.
Christian McKay
#26. My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
Adam McKay
#27. I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
Jim McKay
#29. Carter may have just beaten the crap out of me, he may have shot me in the back, but he'd bought me Dr. Pepper. I know it was effed up, but somehow, it balanced out.
Emily McKay
#30. Next to be in one with worshiping God, there is nothing in this world upon which this church should be more united than in upholding and defending the constitution of the United States.
David O. McKay
#31. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
Adam McKay
#32. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.
Nellie McKay
#33. The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early
David O. McKay
#34. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.
David O. McKay
#35. Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
Jim McKay
#36. The world is hungry to hear the truth ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?
David O. McKay
#37. Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
David O. McKay
#38. He says he needs mothering."
" ... Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs a slave.
Hilary McKay
#39. People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
Christian McKay
#40. Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?"
"Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over.
Hilary McKay
#41. It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.
Nellie McKay
#42. One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.
David O. McKay
#43. There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
Adam McKay
#45. How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!
Hilary McKay
#46. Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
Adam McKay
#47. For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs.
Nicole McKay
#48. Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
Adam McKay
#49. Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
Adam McKay
#50. She'll soon forget."
"Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!
Hilary McKay
#51. Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.
Ami McKay
#52. The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
David O. McKay
#53. If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
Ami McKay
#55. Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
Adam McKay
#56. The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay
#57. People who struggle with overwhelming emotions often feel vulnerable. At any point, the smallest trigger can lead to a tidal wave of emotions that leaves them feeling confused, angry, alone, hopeless, and in pain.
Matthew McKay
#58. Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
Adam McKay
#59. A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.
David O. McKay
#60. We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
David O. McKay
#61. The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay
#62. I had a dream about you last night ... Well I say dream I mean nightmare ... you were a Yankee fan.
Nicole McKay
#63. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
Adam McKay
#64. Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.
Emily McKay
#65. I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
Adam McKay
#66. There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
Adam McKay
#67. Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you. Love, Rose.
Hilary McKay
#68. I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
Nellie McKay
#69. Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
Jim McKay
#70. Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
David O. McKay
#71. I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
Adam McKay
#72. Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Christian McKay
#73. All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
Adam McKay
#74. I used to think that fifteen would be nearly grown up," said her sister Naomi, "until you started being it
Hilary McKay
#75. Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
Adam McKay
#76. Striking a woman was something weak men did; men with little moral fibre and no self-control. It was a coward's response to a situation. And
Steven A. McKay
#77. The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.
David O. McKay
#78. Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
Adam McKay
#79. I've always wanted to go out with a bang, that's why I carry two bricks around with me wherever I go, so when I leave a room I clap them together.
Nicole McKay
#80. When you're lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, you put the lid on as fast as you can.
Emily McKay
#81. No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children
David O. McKay
#82. Zeus was kind of a sneaky bastard and was always morphing into other creatures to get it on with the ladies...
Sibylla Matilde
#83. I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
Adam McKay
#84. You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
Adam McKay
#85. ...he'd become the star on the horizon that had gently kept her centered. The warm comfort in a storm. The fragment of kindness in what had been for so long an unkind world...
Sibylla Matilde
#86. I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.
Jim McKay
#87. My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
Adam McKay
#88. If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Adam McKay
#89. You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.
Adam McKay
#90. Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
Nellie McKay
#91. I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
David O. McKay
#92. As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.
David O. McKay
#93. Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
Adam McKay
#94. This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.
David O. McKay
#95. You can sit on a brick, and milk a cow with a blanket.
Nicole McKay
#96. I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.
Christian McKay
#97. Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
David O. McKay
#98. Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay
#99. If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
Nellie McKay
#100. There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
David O. McKay
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