Donald McCaig Zitate auf Englisch

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You have to train a dog to think.

In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.

Donald McCaig

A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.

Donald McCaig

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.

Donald McCaig

Border collies were trained in Scotland. They have the Scots' commands in their genes. At the dog trials, the owners wear those three-piece western suits, cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats, but they carry Scots shepherd's crooks over their arms and talk to their dogs in Scots accents.

Donald McCaig

That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.

Donald McCaig

Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.

Donald McCaig

If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.

Donald McCaig

You have to train a dog to think.

Donald McCaig

Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.

Donald McCaig

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

Donald McCaig

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

Donald McCaig

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

Donald McCaig

Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.

Donald McCaig

When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.

Donald McCaig

I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.

Donald McCaig