J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

Louis [C.K.] is great. But I don't know how many you could do.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

There are very few people who do what I do.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it, require some similar shock.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing, ”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope and all that led or droveUs back into the bosom of thy love.

To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

You have tasted of death now, ” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good, ” said Mossy. “It is better than life.”“No, ” said the old man: “it is only more life.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies.

Just love everybody!? Do you love everybody, Karma? Could you love Hitler? Answer me that! Could you love Hitler, huh?""I wonder what would have happened if somebody did, Blue?

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form—spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

Above all, we pray that they will make the journey from selfishness to true love. Whether together or single, this is a journey we all have to make. In a sense it is the real journey of life.