Nanine Mclaughlin Quotes

#1. I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#2. No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#3. To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#4. The sun had reached the horizon, and the crickets slowed their chirping as the air began to cool. Sunset and sunrise, he thought, the edges of the day, were the only times you could see the sun move. It touched the top of the ridge and began to disappear. He reminded himself that it was the earth's rotation, that the sun itself only seemed to move, but what difference did that make? He felt he was watching time itself pass. The last bright quarter shrank to an eighth, a sixteenth, a point, and then nothing, the sun's dark negative lingering in his retina. - Author: James A. McLaughlin

#5. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times
always with the same person. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#6. New Age eccentricity could only take you so far before you wandered into mentally ill territory. - Author: M.M. McLaughlin

#7. The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#8. Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#9. It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#10. When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#11. It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#12. Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#13. A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#14. It's my belief that all of the greatest tales ever told have been told in saloons. It was in such smoky, heathen-filled den of iniquity that I first heard the tale of the Bone Feud. As with all great tales, it was at its core one hundred percent true. In fact, much of it has long been a matter of historical record. But tales grow in the telling, and I therefore must apologize in advance for any inaccuracies, and beg your indulgence for any romanticized embellishments. I have decided to present the story here, just as it was told to me. I find it entirely too rich and too entertaining to alter, simply to curry favor with pedants and historians. - Author: Wynne McLaughlin

#15. I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. - Author: John McLaughlin

#16. A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#17. Sometimes I feel like the punchline of God's favorite joke. - Author: Lara McLaughlin

#18. I shouldn't gloat, but every man needs a little beauty in his life, and Elle is my princess. - Author: Heidi McLaughlin

#19. Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#20. When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#21. People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#22. These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were. - Author: John McLaughlin

#23. Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#24. It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#25. A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#26. There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#27. I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#28. God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#29. Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time. - Author: Emma McLaughlin

#30. Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#31. Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#32. When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#33. We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#34. Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#35. I love you. I'm going to love you forever. - Author: Heidi McLaughlin

#36. Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#37. I want to know her, inside and out. I want to learn how to fall in love with her as my partner. - Author: Heidi McLaughlin

#38. We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#39. In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#40. Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card? - Author: Emma McLaughlin

#41. Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#42. They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin