Donald McCaig famous quotes

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.
-- Donald McCaig

#Dog #Museums #Blood

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.
-- Donald McCaig

#Decision #Care #Inconsequential

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.
-- Donald McCaig

#Intense #Concentration

There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.
-- Donald McCaig

#Dog #Calm #Sophisticated

People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace.
-- Donald McCaig

#Dog #Giving #People

It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.
-- Donald McCaig

#Friendship #Dog #Men

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!
-- Donald McCaig

#Birth #Hell #Gentle

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.
-- Donald McCaig

#Intense #Concentration

A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.