Zitat des Tages von Donald McCaig:
In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.
A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
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.
That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.
Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
You have to train a dog to think.
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.
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
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.
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.