Peggy Blumquist Quotes

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it. ~ Peggy Hopkins Joyce

People have been fed a Lean Cuisine in the name of Jesus and told that it was a feast and they've decided there must not be much to this faith stuff after all. People see folks who bear the name of Christ who are acting loudly out of fear and have decided that peace must be found elsewhere. People are hungry to be a part of something that matters and to know that they matter. ~ Peggy Haymes

My motto? Don't trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself."
"What kind of detective are you?" "A lousy one and proud of it. I write, remember?"
She looked down at her hand & laughed. "Berretta doesn't make lighters." "Why I was a writer! My life revolved around fiction. I could make something up"
"She looked down at her hand & laughed. "Berretta doesn't make lighters."
"So they're not Tolstoy, they're a little shorter ... Okay, okay a lot. Go ahead, read my mystery series anyway."
"A detective has their boundaries especially me. So mine shifted occasionally ... okay a lot"
"Beat it, Buster. My temper and this mace have a hair trigger."
"Interference could be lethal." I got right up in his face, hissing, "Don't push me, I'm hormonal."
I'm not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges. ~ Peggy A. Edelheit

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it. ~ Peggy Fleming

Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want. ~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love. ~ Merry Clayton

I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly. ~ Peggy Noonan

she confuses everything i am, shakes the change out of my pokets and makes me want to barter with foreign currency. ~ Peggy Munson

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. ~ Peggy Noonan

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly. ~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

I'm just glad to get any role ... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful. ~ Maggie Smith

How could she be sorry about losing her virginity in a romance-novel way on a sunset sail? ~ Peggy Webb

Peggy thinks men are disgusting animals with no impulse control, and that women should avoid relying on them for emotional support. It took a long time for it to dawn on Marianne that Peggy was using the guise of her general critique of men to defend Jamie whenever Marianne complained about him. What did you expect? Peggy would say. ~ Sally Rooney

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead. ~ Peggy Guggenheim

Any good lover is a good listener. And a bad listener is at best a bad lover and at worst a rapist. ~ Peggy Orenstein

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day. ~ Peggy Guggenheim

Your mission in life is to determine what you believe
not to accept what someone else tells you to believe. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'.. ~ Peggy McIntosh

Technology also addresses the necessity to cover a wide range of content in a short length of time by minimizing the need to take each step of the curriculum at a slow enough pace to teach the slowest learners in a single, teacher-directed way. ~ Peggy Grant

As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina – and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. And it's not going to feel particularly good for girls as the big marker of adulthood. ~ Peggy Orenstein

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was. ~ Peggy Fleming

Unlike a bag of heroin, a girl can be sold again and again. ~ Peggy Kern

If Peggy's personal star was on the rise, Arnold's was in freefall as their respective ships headed into the high seas. ~ Nancy Rubin Stuart

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things. ~ Lee Krasner

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life. ~ Peggy Parish

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group ~ Peggy McIntosh

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you. ~ Buddy Holly

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported. ~ Peggy Noonan

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency ~ P.S. Martinez

Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery. ~ Peggy Kopman-Owens