Mary Chase Quotes

Miss Kelly, you know, when you wear my flower you make it beautiful. ~ Elwood P. Dowd

Well, you've heard the expression, 'his face would stop a clock'. Well, Harvey can look at your clock... and stop it. And you can go anywhere you like, with anyone you like, and stay as long as you like, and when you get back... not one minute will have ticked by. ~ Elwood P. Dowd

You have a lot to learn--and I hope you never learn it! ~ Mary Chase

Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it. ~ Veta Louise Simmons

I want to tell him to sue you for $100,000. I don't think $50,000 is enough. ~ Veta Louise Simmons

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. ~ Mary Chase

You see, science has overcome time and space. Well, Harvey has overcome not only time and space, but any objections. ~ Elwood P. Dowd

... After this he'll be a perfectly normal human being. And you know what stinkers they are! ~ The Taxi Driver

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it. ~ Mary Chase

Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, "We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella." Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey... and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us. ~ Elwood P. Dowd

Fly specks, fly specks! I've been spending my life among fly specks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18th and Fairfax! ~ Chumley

She had her Kindle with her ~ Samantha Chase

The most beautiful sight in football is too watch Manchester United chase a game. ~ Teddy Sheringham

That will solve nothing, my lord." His wife strode into the kitchen, stiff pride shining in her eyes. "I told you to keep her in hand." Brodick glared at his cousin, wondering just when his life had turned inside out. Druce scowled at the sweet smile Brodrick's wife cast toward him. He lifted his finger and pointed at her. "She bit me. ~ Mary Wine

Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification. ~ Mary McCarthy

It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up. ~ Mary Pickford

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure. ~ Bobby Flay

I went boneless and pliant in his arms, letting him control the kiss, suck on my lips, tangle his tongue with mine, and hold me in his arms. "You are so beautiful." He spoke the words against my mouth. "Please don't change your mind; please don't say no to me when we get home." The word no never entered my mind. ~ Mary Calmes

I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career. ~ Mary Kom

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. ~ Mary McGrory

You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule. ~ Mary Kay Ash

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand. ~ Mary Stewart

Desperate need and hunger overpowered something more vulnerable; an aching desire to know me, all of me, and to be known. To love and be loved. It changed everything. My heart swelled and broke all at once as I recognized the familiar ache. An ache I'd buried long ago. ~ Deanna Chase

I am a soldier in my father's army. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Not to harp on Jane Austen, but do you know why everyone loves Darcy?"
"Here we go. Austen has the answer for everything." Shelby laughed outright. There were no six degrees of separation for Rebecca: everything related directly back to Jane. ~ Mary Jane Hathaway

No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object. ~ Mary Fairfax

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together. ~ George Tillman, Jr.

So," Annabeth said, "are you going to argue about me coming along?"
"Nah. You'd just beat me up." Percy said.
She managed a laugh, which was good to hear ~ Rick Riordan

We can all be hurt. ~ Mary Balogh

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music. ~ Boz Scaggs

We all know the rules of love
we know we shouldn't chase
we know we shouldn't say those ridiculous things we say
but we do them anyways
because the truth is
we can't really help it
and we don't really want to. ~ Atticus Poetry

Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own. ~ Bianca Sparacino

He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and was grateful for it. And resentful of it. How helpless women were. The pawns of men. To be tripped up and pitched headlong into the dirt by men, and then to be picked up by them and dusted off and restored to uprightness. But that was the way of the world. ~ Mary Balogh

I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow. ~ Dolly Parton

Don't sacrifice the good to chase the perfect. ~ Emily Ley

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect. ~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

He proceeded to cut carefully a thin slice from the loaf, which he quartered in pieces and buttered for her, the whole business very delicately done and in striking contrast to his manner in serving himself - so much so that to Mary there was something almost horrifying in the change from rough brutality to fastidious care. It was as though there was some latent power in his fingers which turned them from bludgeons into deft and cunning servants. Had he cut her a chunk of bread and hurled it at her she would not have minded so much; it would have been in keeping with what she had seen of him. But this sudden coming to grace, this quick and exquisite moving of his hands, was a swift and rather sinister revelation, sinister because it was unexpected and not true to type. ~ Daphne Du Maurier

Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well. ~ Mary Roach

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings. ~ Tracy Chevalier

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. ~ Mary Quant

See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest. ~ Mary Summer Rain

We should remember the warning of the wise Grail knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "You must choose, but choose wisely, for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you."
Choose the highest-yield material and you can be an idiot and enjoy stunning success. Choose poorly and, as the Grail knight implied, you're screwed no matter what. You'll chase your own tail for years. ~ Timothy Ferriss

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy. ~ Malcolm X

Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there. ~ Mary E. Pearson

The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame. ~ Mary Wortley Montagu

So ... what is this fire river called?"
"The Phlegethon," [Annabeth] said. "You should concentrate on going down."
"The Phlegethon?" [Percy] shinnied along the ledge. They'd made it roughly a third of the way down the cliff - still high enough up to die if they fell. "Sounds like a marathon for hawking spitballs."
"Please don't make me laugh," she said.
"Just trying to keep things light. ~ Rick Riordan

Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me? ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me. ~ Mary E. Pearson

To convey in any existing language how I miss you isn't possible. It would be like blue trying to describe the ocean. ~ Mary-Louise Parker

Fear of difference is fear of life itself. ~ Mary Parker Follett

Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to
save my life
a little. ~ Mary Oliver