C.W. McCall Quotes

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

You can parody almost anything.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

There is plenty of work for love to do.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

What do you see when you look at me?

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.

Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.