"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a……" — Norman MacCaig
"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason."
—
Norman MacCaig
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
-
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
-
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room -…
-
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age…
-
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural…
-
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever,…
-
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
-
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
-
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side,…
-
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have…
-
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them,…
-
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet -…
See all 33 quotes by Norman MacCaig »
More Bother Quotes
This quote is filed under Bother Quotes,
one of 1,148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
— Christian Bale
-
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
— Scott Adams
-
I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers…
— Emmanuelle Beart
-
Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to…
— Robert Benchley
-
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
— Sade Adu
-
I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the…
— Usain Bolt
-
There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
— Usain Bolt
-
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm…
— Elayne Boosler
-
School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two…
— Jo Brand
-
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling…
— Octavia Butler
-
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner…
— Helena Christensen
See all 1,148 Bother Quotes »