Top 60 Mcnally Quotes
#1. Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself
Stephen Levine
#2. God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
Faye Dunaway
#3. I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway
#4. I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.
Lucy Alibar
#5. A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
St. Lucia
#6. According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.
David Letterman
#7. He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"
"My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.
Ashlyn Chase
#8. As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
Richard McCabe
#9. Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.
Terrence McNally
#10. For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.
David McNally
#11. I want to make something that's fleeting and impermanent but so real and deep and loud.
Janet McNally
#12. If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
Terrence McNally
#13. A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won't listen to what you have to say because you're not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, 'cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.
Joe McNally
#14. We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.
John McNally
#15. Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.
Dennis McNally
#16. I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.
Joe McNally
#17. If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.
Joe McNally
#19. At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.
John McNally
#21. Every once in a while, it pays to listen to those annoying characters who are just waiting to tell you how to do your job.
Joe McNally
#23. Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
Joe McNally
#24. I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
Terrence McNally
#25. The basic building block of Evernote is a "note." It can be text, a photo, a snapshot from the web, an e-mail, a chart or graph, anything.
Troy Mcnally
#26. The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.
Shirley Reeser Mcnally
#27. Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong
to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.
T.M. McNally
#28. A career in photography is a journey without a destination.
Joe McNally
#29. hungry spirits so that cattle and crops would not be damaged. The nearness of the spirits meant that all sorts of secrets could be divined on Halloween Night. Young couples roasted nuts on a fire, for example,
Frank McNally
#30. In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
Terrence McNally
#31. With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
Terrence McNally
#32. Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting ... wonderful!
Joe McNally
#33. Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.
Joe McNally
#34. Don't pack up your camera until you've left the location.
Joe McNally
#35. I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
Terrence McNally
#36. 'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.
Terrence McNally
#37. Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
Joe McNally
#38. If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.
Joe McNally
#39. When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.
Joe McNally
#40. A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.
Raymond T. McNally
#41. You've gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it's like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.
Joe McNally
#42. The other contested term is recovered memory therapy. As far as I can tell, no one practicsing psychotherapy today endorses this term as a descriptive of what they do... there are no self-described recovered memory therapists...
Richard J. McNally
#43. I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed, ignored, trampled, or otherwise lost just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.
Joe McNally
#44. We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.
Joe McNally
#45. I won the vote but shunned the soft parade
[ ... ]
I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo)
Shannon McNally
#46. John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it.
Joe McNally
#47. I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.
Terrence McNally
#48. The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.
John McNally
#49. Our pictures are our footprints. It's the best way to tell people we were here.
Joe McNally
#50. The camera's not a camera, really. It's an open door we need to walk through. It's up to us to keep moving our feet.
Joe McNally
#51. There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
Terrence McNally
#52. A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.
John McNally
#53. I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
Terrence McNally
#54. Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break the shackles, hurt is a prison and I from a very young young age refused to be held prisoner or even conform.
Aidan McNally
#55. I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.
Joe McNally
#56. Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.
T.M. McNally
#57. Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
Terrence McNally
#58. Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.
Joe McNally
#59. Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and don't at least occasionally court disaster, you are not trying. Time to hang up the camera.
Joe McNally
#60. Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.
Janet McNally
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