Cathleen McGuigan quotes

“America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces”
-- Cathleen McGuigan

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“I laughed my way through The Stepford Wives.”
-- Cathleen McGuigan

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“Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.”
-- Cathleen McGuigan

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“So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.”

“The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”

“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

“I always knew I was going to die in space.”

“Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.”

“A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.”

“I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.”

“With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.”

“Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.”