Margaret O Brien Quotes

#1. All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

Margaret O'Brien

#2. I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for the book, but I don't have to pay more in my time to read a book that bores me. If I don't enjoy reading it, why read it? For my original investment in the book? That's silly.

Jon Spoelstra

#3. My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

Margaret O'Brien

#4. I want this to be everything you want it to be." Leaning in, he smiles and says, "I want you to see your dream come to life.

Christina Lauren

#5. He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.

Margaret O'Brien

#6. When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?

Margaret O'Brien

#7. If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

Walter Kirn

#8. Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux,

Bill Bryson

#9. I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Margaret O'Brien

#10. It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.

Donna Goddard

#11. As a mother, this was the most difficult prayer I had ever spoken in the silence of my thoughts, but in that instant I knew the greatest mercy I could pray for was not my son's safety, but for his death.

Sue Klebold