Mary Talbert Quotes

How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies? ~ Mary Roach

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk. ~ Zara Phillips

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ~ Mary Renault

Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry. ~ Mary Crow

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog. ~ Ina Caro

I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises. ~ Mary Kay Zuravleff

The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. ~ Mary Quant

I wouldn't leave L.A. if the whole place tipped over into the ocean,' Mary declared. And indeed, she only left Los Angeles on urgent business. She was too tough and too fragile for anyplace else. ~ Eve Babitz

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate) ~ Mary Oliver

I can't say I have much experience with conscience. I wasn't born with that particular cricket on my shoulder. ~ Mary Elizabeth Summer

Even we are guilty of not nurturing gifts, and the gifts that aren't fed shrivel and die. ~ Mary E. Pearson

The masculine ideal of perfection creates a hyper-sensitivity to any nuance of imperfection. Any man who commits his life to the perfectionistic ideal of masculinity is going to feel like a failure. The people around him will feel abused and oppressed by him. The only way to do things is his way, the right way, the ideal way. Every man who succeeds at this game will wind up in the same place: Alone in his victory. At the top of the pyramid there's no room for anyone else. ~ Mary Crocker Cook

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When things get really hot, smoke fills the air. And things were definitely hot in here. ~ S.D. Mary

Death. It doesn't have to be boring. ~ Mary Roach

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ~ Mary Astell

'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.' ~ Mary Page Keller

There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too. ~ Mary Pauline Lowry

Way to pronoun," Saunders says. ~ Mary Robison

As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table. ~ Mary Burke

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me. ~ Mary Sage Nguyen

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. ~ Mary Jo Weaver

I would never disable spell-check. That would be hubris. Autocorrect I could do without. ~ Mary Norris

I love you, Cassie Dawson. I love you and I love our little..." With a sudden start, Red remembered something vital. A tiny spurt of fear flashed in Cassie's eyes. "What is it?" Red said, chagrined, "I just realized I don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl. ~ Mary Connealy

(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.) ~ Mary Karr

I contempleted the lake; the waters were placid, all around was calm and the snowy mountains ... the calm and heavenly scene restored me and I continued my journey toward Geneva. ~ Mary Shelley

What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't. ~ Ed Fallon

About half an hour afterwards he attempted again to speak, but was unable; he pressed my hand feebly, and his eyes closed for ever, while the irradiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley