Top 100 Mcpherson's Quotes
#1. It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.
Dorothy Parker
#2. Wow. Y'all really outdid yourselves. Looks like an elf threw up in here.
Angela McPherson
#3. Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.
Miles McPherson
#5. I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.
James Alan McPherson
#6. I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#7. I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."
Ishmael Reed
#8. I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.
Conor McPherson
#9. If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.
Guy R. McPherson
#10. And I can't take the girl shit." Morpheus's face paled. "Man, her eyes leak too damn much.
Angela McPherson
#11. Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.
Conor McPherson
#13. If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.
Dennis Miller
#16. Without warning, he tossed a bottle of water at me, which I caught. "Nope, no joke. Now I've got to get some beauty sleep, and based on the way you look, you could use a little yourself.
Angela McPherson
#18. October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
Trey Gowdy
#19. Not a chance,' said the doctor. If he had a bedside manner he evidently saved it for actual bedsides.
Catriona McPherson
#21. Do I even want to know what that was?" I only half way wanted an answer.
"It's something you should've already taken by now." I lifted my head, searching his face, but when I did his face doubled. Fact two: he'd drugged me. Great.
Angela McPherson
#22. Most teenagers couldn't wait to turn eighteen. Would I even be around by then? A new goal of mine, don't die. -Trinity
Angela McPherson
#23. Of course, when I was a girl, a housemaid's face would have betrayed no emotion if the corpse were being dismembered on the carpet and she had to step over bits of it to reach the table, but times are changing
Catriona McPherson
#24. We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ...
Aimee Semple McPherson
#25. Having a coach or mentor is nothing more than sharing life's experiences, no amount of education can substitute true life experience
Lachlan McPherson
#28. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#29. The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.
Conor McPherson
#30. When people are out of their comfort zone, it's more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That's the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it.
Conor McPherson
#32. I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.
Conor McPherson
#33. On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.
Dave McPherson
#37. We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.
Conor McPherson
#38. Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.
Guy R. McPherson
#39. Being in love with someone was supposed to be a sweet and tender release. However, being in love with your best friend, who didn't interpret those feelings in the same way, became a violently brutal ache.
Angela McPherson
#40. Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the opportunity to do InMe full-time. We've got closer together, we've got a better connection.
Dave McPherson
#42. For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up.
Miles McPherson
#43. I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you. You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away. You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that.
Patricia McPherson
#44. Until Elle.
I'd never known complete perfection until I made love to her for the first time. Every touch, kiss, stroke, or caress made was all in a need to show her how much I cared. How much I loved her.
Angela McPherson
#46. What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
Aimee Semple McPherson
#47. The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.
Conor McPherson
#48. If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.
Conor McPherson
#49. I wanted a normal life, but normal was as foreign to me as a super bowl ring was to Tony Romo.
Angela McPherson
#50. Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
Miles McPherson
#52. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.
Conor McPherson
#53. I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
Conor McPherson
#54. The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
#55. Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out
either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.
Dave McPherson
#56. Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
Dave McPherson
#57. She was my past, my present, my everything, and when the time came I'd make her my forever.
Angela McPherson
#58. The odds were so not in my favor. My situation sucked to the messed-up-degree.
Angela McPherson
#59. If you want God to bless your relationship, honor God through your relationship.
Miles McPherson
#60. Dude, fix your hair and try applying a little makeup tonight. You are a girl, right?" I swear to goodness, Mom gave birth to Crystal and not me. "You two suck at being my best friends.
Angela McPherson
#61. Wanna know what I find sexy? Lets see...the pressure of your pouty lips on mine. Caressing, tasting, every inch of your naked body. Making love to you and hearing you scream, begging for more. Making you mine. Still waiting...
Angela McPherson
#62. I'm not sure what they mean by "revenge is a dish best served cold." But I do know this - nobody's ever satisfied with a single helping.
- Heman Lindon, McPherson, Kansas ( a character in Heels Over Head )
Clay G. Small
#64. With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
Aimee Semple McPherson
#65. Her room is full of books by people who have radio hours. It's the gospel according to Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson - American dynamism gilded onto a platform of individual redemption. It's religion as detergent.
Carlene Bauer
#66. Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#67. We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious.
Dave McPherson
#68. True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.
Don McPherson
#69. We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
Conor McPherson
#70. God doesn't want you to be addicted to anything in life except Him.
Miles McPherson
#71. The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.
Guy R. McPherson
#72. Was. "Uh, hi, Walter. This is my daughter, Hayley, and this is her mom, Maggie McPherson." "Hi," Hayley said shyly. Maggie nodded and looked uncomfortable. Walter made the mistake of thrusting his hand out to Maggie. If she could have
Michael Connelly
#73. Don't. If either one of us says another word, there's a pretty damn good chance we'd end up on your bed. Fuck it, probably the floor. Without clothes." His jaw tensed. "So, I'm going to leave.
Angela McPherson
#74. I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.
Conor McPherson
#75. Okay, so you can manipulate the way you look, and you can read minds, and you can see the future?" I really hoped she couldn't see everything. Like private moments and, well, basically that exactly.
Angela McPherson
#76. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.
Angela McPherson
#77. Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.
Dave McPherson
#78. I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.
Conor McPherson
#79. Kellie took in a deep breath before going on. "Tristan, I don't want to lose you, but I think underneath," she placed her hand on my chest, over my heart, "I think you're in love with her.
Angela McPherson
#80. Keep things simple. It will not help you if you keep on overcomplicating work-related stuff. It is difficult to move under a complicated context.
Mick McPherson
#82. My day was looking up, until he spoke. "Looks like you forgot to brush your hair this morning." His eyes ran down my body, briefly stopping at my chest, which made me remember I didn't have a bra on. My breathing increased. "And you should really brush your teeth." What the hell?
Angela McPherson
#84. I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.
Don McPherson
#85. I'm going to have to bring up the nigger bill again. [Said to a southern U.S. Senator upon the occasion of the Republicans re-introducing the Civil Right Act of 1957, according to LBJ's Special Counsel Harry McPherson.]
Lyndon B. Johnson
#86. The soft smile on Tristan's face as he drove with his left hand while holding mine in his right screamed louder than any words ever could. He was mine.
Angela McPherson
#88. Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#89. His love is like an unquenchable fire and He refreshes with living waters. I thirst daily and go to the well to drink and be consumed
Lori McPherson
#90. It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.
Conor McPherson
#91. Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats
Miles McPherson
#92. I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
Conor McPherson
#93. I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
Conor McPherson
#94. What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#95. Tristan glanced my way and grinned. Lifting our hands, he brushed a feathery kiss across my skin. "What's got you so quiet, Spud?"
My knuckles tingled where his lips touched. "Oh, you."
His smile deepened. "Well, then carry on.
Angela McPherson
#96. My brain had a difficult time processing what Dad being unfrozen meant.
Angela McPherson
#97. I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.
Conor McPherson
#98. I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
Newt Gingrich
#100. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.
Conor McPherson
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