"Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of……" — Hilary McKay
"Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often"
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Hilary McKay
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20 Quotes by Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay has 20 quotes on this site.
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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night…
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Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!
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He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks…
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How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift…
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Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were…
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Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair.…
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It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine."…
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Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can…
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The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door.…
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She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in…
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She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy.…
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He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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