Top 43 William Mcfee Quotes
#1. Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
William McFee
#2. I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.
Zach Braff
#3. When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
Augusten Burroughs
#5. As you see, you can follow our guidelines and still enjoy eating. In fact, if you like to eat, you should have extra incentive to live longer. Just think -if you add only five years to your life- that means you get to eat at least 5,500 more meals.
David A. Kekich
#6. Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.
William McFee
#7. Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
William McFee
#8. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
#9. The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
Saint Augustine
#10. Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
William McFee
#11. Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
#12. You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.
Nikki Rowe
#13. You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.
Alistair Brownlee
#14. I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?
Zooey Deschanel
#16. There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.
William McFee
#17. It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
William McFee
#18. The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.
William McFee
#19. We need to take a harder look at what's really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.
Aaron B. Powell
#20. Everyone will look. Even if they think it's impolite, still they will look.
Lucy Christopher
#21. Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
William McFee
#22. The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.
William McFee
#23. There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
William McFee
#24. It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
William McFee
#25. Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
William McFee
#26. I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.
John Travolta
#27. The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
William McFee
#28. People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
#29. There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFee
#30. The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
Alain De Botton
#31. There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
William McFee
#33. The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.
William McFee
#34. The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
#35. An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
William McFee
#36. door, something neither English nor American. "What do you think!" she exclaimed, coming in one morning as I was busy writing. "She's got a little iron grate on legs, and there's charcoal burning in it." "Who? Where?" I asked, coming out
William McFee
#37. That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines?
'Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.' ?
That is my gospel. What do you think of it?
William McFee
#38. A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
William McFee
#39. Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.
Michele Zackheim
#40. A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
William McFee
#41. The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
William McFee
#42. There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
William McFee
#43. One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee
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