Mags Quotes

• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Block, Writing

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• Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

  Michael Biehn

  Bulls, Seven, Riders

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• In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

  Alan Moore

  Careers, Long, Way

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• If I wore a low-cut dress or showed my cleavage or did lad's mags, people would make such a big deal. That has stopped me from doing it, but I would if it felt right.

  Konnie Huq

  Cutting, People, Dresses

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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• When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

  Michelle Ryan

  Sexy, Reality, Video

  "Michelle Ryan - Is this the end of her Hollywood dream?". www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Thinking, Weight, Natal

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• Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

  Suzanne Collins

  Force Fields, Nuts, Bunch

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.851, Scholastic Inc.

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• Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director.

  Deborah Smith

  Art, Design, Directors

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.

  Mira Grant

  Sorry, Should Have, Pie

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• When you're working with film and you hear that mag starting to roll and you know that there's thousands of dollars just spinning around, it's another stress element, which I don't enjoy at all.

  Fredrik Bond

  Stress, Spinning Around, Dollars

  Source: collider.com

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• Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

  E. B. White

  Eye, Together, Television

  "Removal". Essay by E. B. White (July 1938), published in his book "One Man's Meat", 1942.

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• It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rocks, Sky, Waves Breaking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1375, Scholastic Inc.

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• Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day.
  [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag,
  Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Men, Pieces

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• When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.

  Joe Satriani

  Guitar, Years, Long

  RIP magazine, June 1994.

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• Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

  Connie Willis

  Fax, Needs, Might

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.24, Bantam

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• Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

  Suzanne Collins

  People, Likes, Wells

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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• We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.

  Suzanne Collins

  Skills, Lunch, Naps

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• Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fog, Mentor, Poison

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.897, Scholastic Inc.

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• Playboy offered me a lot to do their mag but I'm not even the sort to go topless on the beach.

  Jenni Falconer

  Beach, Playboy

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• Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

  Josephus

  Sunday, Use, Favors

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