Top 100 Quotes About Mclean
#1. I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
Don McLean
#2. Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.
Douglas Brinkley
#3. '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
#4. 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
#5. Theo McLean, fact examiner. If I were harsh, I'd say he was a nerd, but it's not cool to put someone down with labels. But man, he was a nerd. He was smart too. Straight-A smart. Except for gym.
D.J. MacHale
#6. A perspicacious lad, Mr. McLean. A perspicacious swine, indeed.
Pat Conroy
#7. If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#8. Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.
Keegan Bradley
#9. Hail, Piper McLean," Chiron announced gravely, as if he were speaking at her funeral. "Daughter of Aphrodite, lady of the doves, goddess of love.
Rick Riordan
#10. Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
Douglas Brinkley
#11. Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.
Stephen Richards
#12. Piper McLean," [Annabeth] grumbled, "that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.
Rick Riordan
#13. There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
Douglas Brinkley
#14. Leo laughed. "I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. But yeah, her dad's Tristan McLean." "Uh - Sorry, what was he in?" "It doesn't matter," Piper said quickly.
Rick Riordan
#15. Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
Don McLean
#16. You're using me for my hot friends?"
"Are you gay?"
"Nope."
"Then you're useless to me.
Jay McLean
#17. I'm your Jake," he smiles. "And you're my Kayla.
Jay McLean
#18. I've done nothing but fucking love you every day since the day I knew your goddamn name and you think you can walk away! I'm not letting you go!
Jay McLean
#19. In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage to follow their hearts - to believe what otherwise would be unbelievable; to seek the light; to find the truth.
Michael McLean
#20. I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
Don McLean
#21. American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Don McLean
#22. Year - I can't even find it in myself to look forward to the next day, let alone three hundred and sixty-five of them.
Jay McLean
#23. My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
Don McLean
#24. Today will live forever in the memory of tomorrow.
Jay McLean
#25. People think I'm Snow White ... the most boring person in the world!
Andrea McLean
#26. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#27. When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.
C.E. McLean
#28. My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.
Don McLean
#29. She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that.
Rick Riordan
#30. Then I put the keys in the ignition, squeal like a girl when it turns over, and drive off ... in my fucking Delorean. Bitches.
Jay McLean
#31. You meant the world to me. And if you didn't know that
if you couldn't see that
then that's how I'll start. Every day I'll show you, and every day I'll prove to you just how much you mean to me. How much you still mean to me.
Jay McLean
#32. When you spend your whole life faking happiness, it becomes a second emotion.
Jay McLean
#33. And I look at him.
Really, truly, look at him.
And I fall in love all over again.
Jay McLean
#34. A mind once stretched by thoughts of heaven will never regain it's original shape (a shameless tweak of a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author and physician)
Serenity McLean
#35. You miss her?" "Every second, of every hour, of every day.
Jay McLean
#36. Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
Bethany McLean
#37. You're just a little broken... That's all. Now you just have to let me be the glue that keeps you together.
Jay McLean
#38. No one else would get it, Amanda. No one else would understand how one fucking night with a virtual stranger changed me. How I never wanted to be close to anybody my entire life. Not until I met you.
Jay McLean
#39. I met a girl with raven dark hair and eyes the color of emeralds ...
Jay McLean
#40. Starry Starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.
Don McLean
#41. God, I can't even begin to tell you ... I just wish that you could have felt it too. So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever.
Jay McLean
#42. No fictional boy has ever compared to you.
Jay McLean
#43. Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
Don McLean
#44. That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop. That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop.
Jay McLean
#45. I didn't come out to my parents until the day I left for college."
"Yeah? That must've sucked."
"Yeah," he said, shrugging. "I spent most of my high school years so far in the closet I was having adventures in Narnia.
Jay McLean
#46. She was my person. She was it for me. Always.
Jay McLean
#47. It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything
Kirk McLean
#48. I don't think it's our pasts that define us, and it's not even our life's final destination. It's everything we do in between, the actual living, that creates who we are.
Jay McLean
#49. We fall. We get back up. We kick. We push. Again and again. Because the joy of success is greater than the depression of failure.
Jay McLean
#50. Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.
Don McLean
#51. When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
Jay McLean
#52. Shut up, me" Leo said out loud.
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.
Rick Riordan
#53. Leo: "So ... giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?
Rick Riordan
#54. I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
Don McLean
#55. Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
Bethany McLean
#56. There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.
Don McLean
#57. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything to change it.
Jay McLean
#58. Have faith, you miserable git," the Burned Man said. "Where there's a will there's a way, and all that. You have made a will, haven't you?
Peter McLean
#60. When your heart breaks and you lose absolutely everything you have left in life. The only thing you can do is cry.
Jay McLean
#61. Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
Bethany McLean
#62. I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.
Andrea McLean
#63. We run. We jump. We fall. Deeper. Harder. In love.
Jay McLean
#64. Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Don McLean
#65. I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
Don McLean
#66. Are you planning on coming out and kissing me any time soon? Or should I just stab myself in the chest, rip out my heart, and leave it out in the open?
Jay McLean
#67. Maybe it is-too soon, I mean-but who gives a shit, right?
Jay McLean
#68. The greatest thing about dreams is they don't expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.
Casi McLean
#69. Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
Bethany McLean
#70. I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.
McLean Stevenson
#71. I'll always love you," I tell her. "You'll always belong to me, Becca.
Jay McLean
#72. You know what the problem with high school is? There is way too much of it.
Jay McLean
#73. I don't want my past to determine my future - and my future is you, Josh.
Jay McLean
#74. I'd give it all up if it meant I could see her again
Jay McLean
#76. Because the thing is, you don't fall in love with your best friends girl
Jay McLean
#77. Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
Don McLean
#78. Stop making me fall in love with you."
I smile now, taking her face in my hands. "I'll never stop that, babe, ever." I kiss her slowly, until I can no longer taste the tears on her lips. Until she knows that she owns every part of me. Forever.
Jay McLean
#80. My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
Don McLean
#81. And at her words, I release her. Because the last thing I ever wanted was to hurt her.
Jay McLean
#82. Stupid Fucking Logan Fucking Matthews
Jay McLean
#83. Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.
Don McLean
#84. How could I forget the day I found my person?
Jay McLean
#85. I need you. I need to love you. And I need to love you right.
Jay McLean
#86. Everything's digital now, but sometimes I'll buy a paperback if I love the book. I love the smell of them too. Like the first time you open them up, and they're fresh and new. Or old books,
Jay McLean
#87. No matter who you are or what you do, there will always be some people who don't like you
A. J. McLean
#88. Babe," I cut her off. "I don't care about my friends, or what they think. I just care about you.
Jay McLean
#89. The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.
Andrea McLean
#90. Because sometimes you need to have nightmares to appreciate the dreams.
Jay McLean
#91. I know, and I do trust you, but when you said it was a surprise I thought you meant 'Here, Luce. I got you a unicorn.' not 'Here, Luce, jump in the river.
Jay McLean
#92. Because while she's so pre-occupied reading ... I'm so pre-occupied reading her.
Jay McLean
#93. He punches the steering wheel. And then he breaks. The boy I love breaks. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything
Jay McLean
#94. She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.
Rick Riordan
#95. Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
A. J. McLean
#96. I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.
Don McLean
#97. Why are you smiling like that?"
"I'm just happy."
"Why?"
"Because you're here. You're real. And you're mine.
Jay McLean
#98. Is your sister ... uh ... hearing impaired?"
"She's just reading.
Jay McLean
#99. I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
Andrea McLean
#100. He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up.
Rick Riordan
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