George MacKay quotes

“The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.”
-- George MacKay

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.”
-- George MacKay

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.”
-- George MacKay

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“Hills tell old stories.  Cliffs are poets with harps”
-- George MacKay

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“Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.”
-- George MacKay

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

“We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.”

“If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.””

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”

“American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.”

“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”

“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.”