Mrs Sweeney Quotes

Are you ready for me to read?" I took her outstretched cup and placed it on the bedside table.
"I was ready ten minutes ago. If you wait any longer I'll have time to write a novel meself. ~ Jenny B. Jones

There is a host of angels surrounding you, Rebecca. Not figuratively. Literally. With wings spread far to encompass you, protect you with their Light. Remember that they are with you - see them with your heart and soul - whenever you are forced to engage in battle with forces that seek and have become, through their own will, evil. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

But I was caught in an hourglass of colliding dreams. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt. ~ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Everyone's always on the hunt for a mirror. It's basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others. Others - your sister, your parents - they want to look at you and see themselves. They want you to be a flattering reflection of them - and vice-versa. It's normal. I suppose it's really normal if you're a twin. But being somebody else's mirror? That is not your job." Nora ~ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control. ~ D. B. Sweeney

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. ~ John Sweeney

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine. ~ Alison Sweeney

Among other things, I've taken up smoking. Ana says I should stop with the good girl/bad girl stuff, and obviously she's right, but sometimes when I have a cigarette in my hand and the streets are dangerously empty and I've had a few drinks after my shift and I am noticing the lights that are on in different apartments, lighting stairways and whole buildings, blinking red on the skyline, I think about the nights on the island when I was content to stand alone outside the house, listening to the god horns in that soft blackness, and tasting the air, sweet with salt. ~ Aoibheann Sweeney

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. ~ Julia Sweeney

St. Catherine of Siena once said, 'If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.' But," I turned to him urgently, "how can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step? ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries. ~ Anne Sweeney

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career. ~ Julia Sweeney

The fleeting moment became Whole. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

They'd fallen into their old ways, accusatory and evasive, which was reassuring in a perverted way. Leo understood the nasty pull of the regrettable familiar, how the old grooves could be so much more satisfying than the looming unknown. It's addicts stayed addicts. ~ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that. ~ Chris Colfer

I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live. ~ Anne Sweeney

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. ~ John Sweeney

Coaches can't limit their coaching to those who they feel comfortable or friendly with. Instead, they must actively create coaching conversations with all teachers. ~ Diane R. Sweeney

I take issue with those who criticize 'The Biggest Loser' for pushing contestants too hard. The whole point is to push them hard. Otherwise, there's no change. ~ Alison Sweeney

Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions. ~ Anne Sweeney

Scattered pebbles reached toward
the waters like a cocoon transformed to liquid
sapphires, and a forest of trees and bramble framed
each curve, mountains rising in the distance. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies! ~ Stephen Sondheim

Odd is a compliment," he continued, his eyes twinkling, "whereas weird is an insult. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Just another attempt by Rebecca to connect an everyday occurrence to the literary world."
- Adriana ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

You can only understand how someone else needs to handle death in the given, specific moment. There are few hard and fast rules. I understand both my father and my friend. Or rather, I understand neither and so allow both the dispensation the ignorant should grant the wise. ~ Kate Sweeney

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up! ~ Alison Sweeney

I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fruit already cut up for after a run, so when I'm done I can chow on cantaloupe or watermelon. It's so satisfying, and that probably keeps me from being too hungry for other things. ~ Alison Sweeney

Sunken yellow lurched in a mindfield of black
twisted cylinders, falling like poisoned honey across
my vision. It cleared, and became a series of flashing
images, jagged edges of memories, each more
beautiful and terrible than the last, playing across
the screen of blackened cement. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly. ~ John Sweeney

Rebecca, we live in a world where darkness seems, in the minds of many, something banished to the world of fairy tales and superhero movies. How surprising it then becomes - even for those of us who believe otherwise - that it may appear in our own lives, in our own battles. To face an opponent that is more than the average 'jerk,' who has made a deadly choice, is, let us admit it, nothing that we expect to experience. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

She supposed she could Google, but she preferred to wonder. ~ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Cats don't forget. Cats know when they are needed and loved. These two would be better medicine for Minnie than anything that came out of a pill bottle.
p. 284 ~ Leann Sweeney

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it! ~ Neil Gaiman

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. ~ Paul Sweeney

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on. ~ Cornel West

[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity.
Nowadays we have enough terror and pity in our own lives and so rather than going to the theatre looking for terror, we go looking for slight irritation. And rather than looking for the theatre to evoke pity, we look merely for a generalized sense of identification as in "Evita was a woman, I am a woman." Or "Sweeney Todd was a barber, I go to the hairdresser." Or "Fosca in Passion should have her moles removed, I know a good dermatologist." That sort of thing. ~ Christopher Durang

In airy breaths I fly anew
Uncontained by earth or mortal coil
I remain free, as if in distant land
Circling on and on without false step
Breathless, I glide, a maiden swept
In the wonder of ice-capsuled chandeliers
Laughing without reserve or fear
Touched by the vibrant glow
Of a treasure chest
Sought and found. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Ignorance of the ages leaves me all but lifeless.
Not alone has it burnt sacred religious works,
but works of literature, art, philosophy, poetry,
astronomy, n' medicine, but to name a few. ~ Richard Mc Sweeney

It mingles in seas of carousels
It becomes the past and knows it not. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney