Barry Magee quotes

Barry Magee quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.”
-- Barry Magee

#Running Quotes #Next Quotes #Six Quotes

“The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.”

Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
“Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.”
“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”
“I really hate it when I canâ€™t score runs from a ball.”
“The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.”
“My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.”
“I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.”
“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”
“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan
“I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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