Top 100 Marjorie Quotes
#1. He felt the stone hit his chest, hard and hot, before finding its way up to the surface again. He touched it, surprised by its weight. Marjorie splashed him suddenly, laughing loudly before swimming away, toward the shore.
Yaa Gyasi
#2. I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson
Jennifer A. Girardin
#4. It's as if the whole world was fire and crystal and aquiver
with some sort of cotton wrappers thrown over it."
"Dust sheets," said Marjorie. "I know.
H.G.Wells
#5. Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.
--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2
A.E.H. Veenman
#6. I danced before I wrote. Everything my mentor, Marjorie Mussman, teaches about movement -- creating focus, taking chances, making an unequivocal statement -- is beautifully applicable to the craft of writing.
Jane F. Kotapish
#7. Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses.
The man-made world means exactly that. There isn't an inch of it that doesn't have to be dealt with, figured out, executed. And it's waiting for you to decide what it's going to look like.
Chip Kidd
#8. I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.
Pola Negri
#9. Her mother often joked that Marjorie must have been birthed from a cocoa nut, split open and wide.
Yaa Gyasi
#11. Go ahead, say it. Crazy. Right? Your daughter was going crazy. So why not stop at church? Makes perfect sense to me." "Marjorie
Paul Tremblay
#12. I haven't dated anyone seriously in three years-maybe longer- because when they open their mouths, they no longer interest me. But you? You eat up my thoughts all day long. You make me wonder what your thinking even when you're not around me. I'm fucking crazy about you, Marjorie.
Jessica Clare
#13. Almost two hundred years ago, Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom. And when they told her they didn't think they could, when they said they were too afraid, she pointed a gun at them and said" - Marjorie mimed a weapon in her grasp - "Go forward or die.
Anna Carey
#14. Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.
Jane Goodger
#15. The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.
Steve Harvey
#16. In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
- Marjorie Dorfman, The History of Make-up
Julie Klassen
#18. What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he - or better yet, *she* - watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves if we'd just stopped to look.
-Leah said - to Nadine, although she was looking at Marjorie (pg 138)
Dean Hughes
#19. I'm too much a man for hysterics.
Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
Marjorie M. Liu
#20. Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.
Julia Alvarez
#21. Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson
Jennifer A. Girardin
#22. Other children would be sent to England for school and they would come back to form an elite class." Next to him, Marjorie shifted her weight, and Marcus tried not to look at her. It was the way most people lived their lives, on upper levels, not stopping to peer underneath.
Yaa Gyasi
#23. Not the being lost, but the being found. It was the same feeling he got whenever he saw Marjorie. Like she had, somehow, found him. Months
Yaa Gyasi
#24. The Council turned an elite squad into a mockery," Marjorie had said to Zaira more than once. "They used us as a whip on the backs of those who would oppose their rule, while allowing the true threats to roam free.
Nalini Singh
#25. I'm - I'm Marjorie, a fourteen-year-old girl, scared of everything, who doesn't know why she hears voices that tell her confusing things. And I try to be good and I try. Try not to listen to them.
Are you scared and confused like I am? I think everyone is secretly like me.
Paul Tremblay
#26. I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#27. Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.
Marjorie Hillis
#29. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#30. Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#31. Would you like some more pancakes? Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to eat on the job. But I must keep up my strength.
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
#32. They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account.
"Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#34. They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#35. Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.
Marjorie M. Liu
#37. What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Marjorie Holmes
#38. Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#39. Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.
--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#40. My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.
Marjorie Fleming
#41. I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.
Marjorie Celona
#42. Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.
Marjorie Garber
#43. A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#44. I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.
Marjorie Scardino
#45. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
Marjorie Holmes
#47. You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#48. For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.
Marjorie Kellogg
#51. There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#52. Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?
Marjorie Dannenfelser
#53. When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.
Marjorie Gubelmann
#56. It is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#57. Don't believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes.
Marjorie Celona
#60. Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
Marjorie Hillis
#62. There are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.
Marjorie Hillis
#63. It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.
Marjorie Bowen
#64. I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#65. The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'
Marjorie Gubelmann
#66. Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#67. People like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.
Marjorie Kellogg
#68. The beautiful thing
perhaps the thing I love most about the gospel
is that everything we learn we can use and take with us and use it again. No bit of knowledge goes wasted. Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else. Did you know that? What a concept!
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#69. Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#70. A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#72. Frosty winter evenings, patterns of ice forming on the window panes outside, fresh coal piled on the red embers, and the fire spurting sulphurous flames of blue and green.
Marjorie Eccles
#74. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#75. A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.
Marjorie Fleming
#76. I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#77. Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
Marjorie Holmes
#78. Now, having left cities behind me, turned
Away forever from the strange, gregarious
Huddling of men by stones, I find those various
Great towns I knew fused into one, burned
Together in the fire of my despising ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#80. The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#81. Brennan didn't look exactly like Raif to Shayla's eyes, but for someone who didn't know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years.
Marjorie F. Baldwin
#83. It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#84. But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.
Marjorie M. Liu
#86. It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
Marjorie Holmes
#87. God works with the world as it is in order to bring it to where it can be. Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be. Prayer opens the world to its own transformation.
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
#88. Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.
Marjorie Holmes
#89. There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#90. Certainly, affairs should not even be thought of before you are thirty.
Marjorie Hillis
#91. I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ...
Marjorie Fleming
#93. A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Jane Yolen
#95. True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#96. You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#97. The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#98. She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood".
Marjorie Celona
#99. The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.
Marjorie Hart
#100. Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
