Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.


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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like T...
MACAULAY CULKIN
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm ...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn'...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direct...
MACAULAY CULKIN
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the po...
MACAULAY CULKIN
Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
MACAULAY CULKIN
A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, h...
ROSE MACAULAY
I don't even get an allowance.
MACAULAY CULKIN
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why i...
ROSE MACAULAY
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms...
ROSE MACAULAY
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice ...
ROSE MACAULAY
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
LORD MACAULAY
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other ...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happene...
MACAULAY CULKIN
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against fur...
ROSE MACAULAY
I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
DAVID MACAULAY
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
ROSE MACAULAY
But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not who...
ROSE MACAULAY
He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate g...
TONY MACAULAY
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J.C. MACAULAY
He's a friend, but the kind of friend you talk to twice a year.
MACAULAY CULKIN
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a liv...
MACAULAY CULKIN
I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.
MACAULAY CULKIN
We [Michael Jackson and I] talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN
Love's a disease. But curable.
ROSE MACAULAY
The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there?
ROSE MACAULAY
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it...
ROSE MACAULAY
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
ROSE MACAULAY
So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed wi...
ROSE MACAULAY
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, c...
LORD MACAULAY
We have to deal with the hand that we?re dealt. We have to look at it as the glass being half-full. ...
TONY MACAULAY
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
ROSE MACAULAY
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY
He was pretty good in the stuff we asked him to do.
COLIN MACAULAY
Brock just seems very natural doing it.
COLIN MACAULAY
He was great. We hope to have him on again.
COLIN MACAULAY
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
DAVID MACAULAY
I've never thought about the ages of my readers.
DAVID MACAULAY
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own l...
DAVID MACAULAY
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get...
DAVID MACAULAY
I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
DAVID MACAULAY
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the...
LORD MACAULAY
We'd see people live more simply, and to them it's a way of life.
KATE MACAULAY
Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love,...
DR BRIAN BABINGTON
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth re...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many...
J. C. MACAULAY
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MACAULAY
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J. C. MACAULAY
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consol...
J. C. MACAULAY
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth read...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN