Top 20 Neil Gunn Quotes
#1. I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
Konrad Lorenz
#2. I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.
Christy Mathewson
#3. And whenever the prime concern in life is money-making, then you have trickery and brutality and wrong. I'm saying that, not from what I have heard, but from what I have observed in a long life among our own folk.
Neil M. Gunn
#4. What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.
Neil M. Gunn
#5. An' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel
Neil M. Gunn
#6. I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
Robert Downey Jr.
#7. My relationship has never been good with the government.
John McAfee
#8. We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.
Neil M. Gunn
#9. In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.
Neil M. Gunn
#10. What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?
as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
George Bernard Shaw
#11. We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now ... human dealings are founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round.
Neil M. Gunn
#12. I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.
John C. Reilly
#13. If you're not having fun you have the design wrong
Geoff Lawton
#15. Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep
Neil M. Gunn
#17. You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing."
"Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.
Neil M. Gunn
#19. Surely love, if there was any such thing, should be ease and tenderness ...
Neil M. Gunn
#20. A lot of times people will think, "I'm strong, I'm in shape; why can't I do this pose?" But that's not the point. There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.
Adam Levine
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