Mckennitt Quotes

#1. Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder

Loreena McKennitt

#3. I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

Paul McGann

#4. [During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

Maria Callas

#5. For all things turn to barenness
In the dim glass the demons hold
The glass of outer weariness
Made when God slept in times of old

Loreena McKennitt

#6. Where once September seemed merely and quietly odd, staring out the window during Mathematics lectures and reading big colorful books under her desk during Civics, now the other children sensed something wild and foreign about her.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. Eccentricity is not a psychiatric disorder.

Bill Dedman

#9. I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

Loreena McKennitt

#10. To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

Loreena McKennitt

#11. Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

Loreena McKennitt

#12. I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship.

Loreena McKennitt

#13. Even when you act like nothing is happening, something happens - I don't know how to put it any more clearly. It's

Herman Koch

#14. The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Marc Andreessen

#15. Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it's not about you. American Blacks are not telling you that you are to blame. They are just telling you what is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#16. What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?

Rachel Sklar

#17. I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Bill Murray

#18. Left to ourselves we turn God into an object, something we can deal with, some thing we can use to our benefit, whether that thing is a feeling or an idea or an image.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

Paul Coffey

#20. Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

Joe Queenan

#21. I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

Kathleen Hanna

#22. I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.

Loreena McKennitt