Madelynne Quotes

#1. When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

Mariella Frostrup

#2. The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

Ray LaHood

#3. What are you looking at?"
"The woman I love." With all his heart and soul.
Reese looked over her shoulder. "Where? I don't see any one." Then she laughed, hitting the glass table with the palm of her hand.

Erin McCarthy

#4. My "Kentucky NCAA Champions" shirt was by now so bloodstained, you would think I had worn it to a North Carolina game. Also, I had feathers sticking to my hair.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

#6. I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.
I might have some chances in this bitchy life,
but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give ...
my best shot.

Toba Beta

#7. God is part of the universe, master architect but not master magician. In this conception, miracles do not represent, as they traditionally have, "the intervention of God in the natural order" or "the suspension of the natural order."10

Terryl L. Givens

#8. It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Stanislaw Ulam

#9. A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.

Alex D. Linz

#10. There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

Scott Adams

#11. If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

Karen Quan

#12. Anyone one loves is a potential enemy ...

Maude Meagher

#13. And, most important, if you like shaving your entire region, and somebody tells you that it's wrong because it makes you look like a baby, that person is a lunatic. You are an adult woman who happens to have no pubic hair. You are not a Lolita. You are an adult woman.

Alida Nugent

#14. Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Dave Barry