Top 100 Mcphee's Quotes
#1. Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books
C.J. Box
#5. My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
Katharine McPhee
#6. The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#8. I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
John McPhee
#9. The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#10. The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#13. A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing.
John McPhee
#14. He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.
John McPhee
#15. I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.
Katharine McPhee
#16. In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.
John McPhee
#17. Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.
Katharine McPhee
#18. I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.
John McPhee
#19. When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#20. It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#21. In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.
John McPhee
#22. Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.
John McPhee
#23. A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#24. A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.
John McPhee
#25. On each of two porches lie big chunks of serpentine - smooth as talc, mottled black and green. When you see rocks like that on a porch, a geologist is inside.
John McPhee
#26. It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#27. The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#29. When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-came out to fight the fire and loot the cabin. There were individual piles of loot, and fights over the piles. "That's my pile." "The hell it is, it's mine.
John McPhee
#30. I'm not one to go on blogs and things like that, but we do have our own personal Twitter profiles, so we get a lot of tweets, and they are pretty passionate. It's fun. I like it.
Katharine McPhee
#31. Apply loose powder on top of the foundation under your eyes, so if a little shadow spills, it's easier to wipe off.
Katharine McPhee
#32. He said, Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.
John McPhee
#33. I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.
Katharine McPhee
#34. I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it.
John McPhee
#35. The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#36. I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.
Katharine McPhee
#37. I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#38. Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#40. Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult.
Katharine McPhee
#41. I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.
Katharine McPhee
#42. I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#43. the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In
John McPhee
#45. Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#47. In through the front door, Once around the back, Peek through the window, And off jumps Jack. - A RHYME TO TEACH CHILDREN TO KNIT
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#48. You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#49. I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#50. I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#51. Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.
John McPhee
#52. Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
John McPhee
#55. You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.
Katharine McPhee
#56. 'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#57. 100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#58. It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#59. It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#62. I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells ...
John McPhee
#64. I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#65. Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.
Katharine McPhee
#68. Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about their fertility, pregnancy and delivery, and have more dreams about children - owing to their role as primary caregivers. Other differences in dreams have been exaggerated.
Charles McPhee
#69. I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#71. The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.
John McPhee
#72. If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.
John McPhee
#73. The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
Emma Thompson
#75. I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#76. I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.
Katharine McPhee
#77. One thing I learned about people is that they love to give their opinions about things.
Katharine McPhee
#78. I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.
Katharine McPhee
#80. I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#81. I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'
Katharine McPhee
#84. I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#85. If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.
Katharine McPhee
#88. published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one American geologist in eight still didn't believe in plate tectonics. Today
Bill Bryson
#89. Mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.
John McPhee
#90. I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.
Katharine McPhee
#91. There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#94. New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#95. My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#96. It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#97. 'Slow West' is a film that I did with Michael Fassbender in New Zealand and Scotland. The director was John McLean. It's a film set in the 1800s. I play a young Scottish boy brought up in the royal family. I fall in love with someone who works on our land.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#98. Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#99. If I could choose any car in the world, I'd get a Lamborghini, but I think that's a bit too much money. I'll start off with maybe a V8 or something.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#100. I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules - if she could hear you ... " My voice trails off.
"Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy?" Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?
Jodi Picoult
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