Mackintosh Quotes

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.

What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

I've never had a very great public life.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

What musicals need is a new me.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.