Quotes About Mac

#1. I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

Bernie Mac

#2. When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

Michael Crichton

#3. I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

Mac Danzig

#4. Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though."
"We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night."
"Oh! I thought it was the standard fee for the pillow, but now when I know better..."
"I might take that back..."
"Too late!" she laughed.

Lina Andersson

#5. Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

Karen Marie Moning

#6. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.

Mac MacKenzie

#7. That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Bernie Mac

#8. I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

Mac DeMarco

#9. Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.

P.C. Cast

#10. The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine.

J.L. Mac

#11. If music be the food of love, get me a supersized big mac, chips, two apple pies and a large milkshake.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Mac Davis

#13. The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.

Brian J. White

#14. Now don't warp your orbit, Mac.

Alfred Bester

#15. I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.'
What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it.
'I want what I want and I take it.'
Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now?
'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

Bernie Mac

#17. Here's the reality, for the next couple of years the Mac OS will experience increasing security threats and mark my words, the company will have to seek outside expertise in the form of a head of security communications in the next 12 months.

Stephen Toulouse

#18. I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'm Pri-ya again.
I always will be with this man.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. He kissed me. And then he said it was a mistake."
Serena wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "Normally, I'd quote that copy of He's Just Not That Into You I picked up at a yard sale but-

Kathleen Peacock

#20. Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad.

Mac Danzig

#21. What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.

Steve Jobs

#22. Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

Mac Anderson

#23. I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

Bernie Mac

#24. I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

Mac DeMarco

#25. I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod.

Walter Isaacson

#26. I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Steve Jobs

#27. My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10.
My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#28. You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

Lindsey Buckingham

#29. The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Bernie Mac

#30. Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

Jory John

#31. How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?"
Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible.

Rob Thomas

#32. Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

Karen Marie Moning

#33. I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

Mac Davis

#34. All that we have and don't have is a grace. Even the awareness of grace is a grace in which we should give thanks.

Mac MacKenzie

#35. I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me ... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

Catherine Bell

#36. There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Mac Davis

#37. By the late 1990s, it was almost as if the Orwellian scenario of the Mac's "1984" commercial had come true. Big Business, with a pair of capital B's, ruled computing. The drones used what they were told.

Brent Schlender

#38. There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.

Phil Schiller

#39. Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Mac DeMarco

#40. I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.

Aaron Sorkin

#41. To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

Guy Kawasaki

#42. The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

Meredith Brooks

#43. Jaden: "Dude, you've found something wrong with every girl. I'm about to play this one solo if you can't make up your mind."
Bastian: "We're not trying to decide between a Big Mac or a chicken sandwich here. This is some serious shit. We want epicness, we have to be choosy.

Nyrae Dawn

#44. In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.

Mac Anderson

#45. I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

Mitt Romney

#46. I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

Bernie Mac

#47. Girls learn sexiness, women teach class.

Mac Lethal

#48. I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

Jim Allchin

#49. As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Bernie Mac

#50. Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme

Karen Marie Moning

#51. This is where God hangs out.

Mac O'Grady

#52. I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !

Mac Anderson

#53. Stand by those who stand by you.

Mac Miller

#54. Said I'll make it big when, everybody know me
Well, I made it big and, everybody phony

Mac Miller

#55. Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

Joan Collins

#56. The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.

Andy Hertzfeld

#57. Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?

Mac Anderson

#58. So help me, Mac, if you manage to kill me I will ruin your eternity. You will be the most miserable man to live forever.

Marshall Thornton

#59. Real philosophy is dense, impenetrable, so esoteric as to be unknown and so obscure as to be irrelevant... Maybe what I do is trivial, the philosophical equivalent of a Big Mac and fries

Jacob M. Held

#60. Was that the sum total of my exsitence? I didn't get the erudition of 'I think therefore I am.'
Instead I got 'I am, therefore I want to fuck Jericho Barrons.

Karen Marie Moning

#61. I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.

Mac DeMarco

#62. Girl I don't wanna share you
We could be together, but you scared to
I ain't gonna leave you
My people tell me I should
And when I blow I hope you know
That I could have any girl I choose
But as time goes by, baby all I'm gonna want is you

Mac Miller

#63. Someone who tells you exactly what they think of you isn't necessarily and enemy.

Mac Fletcher: "Gates of Dawn" (in progress)

Mac Fletcher

#64. People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

Mac Miller

#65. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

Steve Jobs

#66. ("An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Kate Atkinson

#67. One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

Mac O'Grady

#68. The steak ain't right without the A-1
So I stay dipped in sauce and they come

Mac Dre

#69. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Walter Isaacson

#70. She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.

Nancy Garden

#71. If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.

Mac DeMarco

#72. Everything is important- that success is in the details.

Steve Jobs

#73. the phone rang, and I picked it up in the kitchen. It was Mac Evans, asking if I wanted to be an astronaut.

Chris Hadfield

#74. I love who I am. I love what I've become.

Bernie Mac

#75. It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

Mac Barnett

#76. I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

Armie Hammer

#77. Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

Steve Jobs

#78. No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a homunculus.

J.P. Mac

#79. I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

Bernie Mac

#80. 'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.

Mac Miller

#81. In business, real discipline comes in saying no to the wrong opportunities." - Jim Collins

Mac Anderson

#82. I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

John Stamos

#83. My heart resides with you.

J.L. Mac

#84. Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes.
And psychotic killers.

Karen Marie Moning

#85. I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

Niall Ferguson

#86. A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has ... always will.

Mac Anderson

#87. I can't even walk out the door without, even to go to the race track, without my MAC lip gloss.

Angela Cope

#88. I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

Mac DeMarco

#89. I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

Bernie Mac

#90. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Mac Barnett

#91. He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.

Karen Marie Moning

#92. As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

Sachin Tendulkar

#93. He was reading with his mouth open, and he didn't hear me walk across the porch and sit down on the railing opposite his chair.
I kicked his chair with the toe of my shoe. "Stop reading, Mac," I said. "Put down that book. Entertain me." He was reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

J.D. Salinger

#94. Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

Bill Gates

#95. Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

Bernie Mac

#96. Mac knocks on the door. After he updates Spider, he asks, "Do you have your weapon with you?"
"Yes, it's like my American Express card. I never leave home without it." Mac hears Spider lock and load the weapon. Reassured that Spider is going to be all right, he walks out the front door.

David McKoy

#97. You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.

Mac Anderson

#98. I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

Bernie Mac

#99. In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

Wesley Morris

#100. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

Jerry Wexler