Top 100 Mary Ann Quotes
#1. Don't profane yourself, or the Biodag Dubh.
Oh, Mary Ann. Me and the Beedak Doo are just fine.
Kendare Blake
#2. Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!
Lewis Carroll
#3. Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And
Harlan Coben
#4. But I also want her to know that Mary Ann and I are best friends and have been forever.
Laurie B. Friedman
#5. We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto
Mary Ann D'Alto
#6. Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.
Annie Barrows
#7. Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.
Mae West
#9. What nationality are you Mary-Ann can't tell you look like a mixed breed mut
Pamela Martin
#12. The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.
Mary Gaitskill
#13. A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.
Armistead Maupin
#14. My neighbour Evangeline Smythe is going to have twins in June. She is none too happy about it, so I am going to ask her to give one of them to me
Mary Ann Shaffer
#15. I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#16. We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#17. I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons.
Kathy-Ann Becker
#18. He keeps his arms away from me, but eventually, holding him, I feel him tuck his chin over my head. Then he whispers, "You're the sweetest girl, the best girl, I ever kissed, Carrie West," and rubs his face into my hair like a child, breathing deep.
Mary Ann Rivers
#19. I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love).
Mary Ann Shaffer
#20. I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#21. Miss X has always been a ditherer
she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#22. I will meet you on Wednesdays at noon in Celebration Park. Kissing only. I won't touch you below the shoulders. You can touch me anywhere. No dating, no hookups. I will meet with you for as long as you meet me, so if you miss a Wednesday we part as strangers ...
Mary Ann Rivers
#24. All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged
after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#26. Same way a serial killer chooses his weapons, only Aaron was the serial killer of souls.
Mary Ann D'Alto
#27. Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#28. I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway.
Mary Ann Rivers
#29. Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
Mary Ann Mobley
#30. No. I'm waiting because it's not enough. What's on the other side of the waiting is enough.
Mary Ann Rivers
#31. Remy watched the sea breathe in and out. Then she said, "It would have been better for her not to have such a heart." Yes, but worse for the rest of us.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#32. Truly, "the bravest are the tenderest; the loving are the daring." How generous - how truly brave the man who would thus dare death! who would, at the risk of life, perform a truly Christian deed!
Mary Ann Loughborough
#33. Death was confused. "That's senseless! I am the doorway to eternity.
Mary Ann D'Alto
#34. Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#35. I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.
Mary Ann Mobley
#36. If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
Gena Showalter
#37. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#39. Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#40. There was Isola in a mad hat and a purple shawl pinned with a glittering brooch. She was smiling fixedly in the wrong direction and I loved her instantly.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#41. People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#42. I have a tiny infant of an idea, much too frail and defenseless to risk describing, even to you ... I am going to coddle it and feed it and see if I can make it grow.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#43. Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.
Mary Ann Glendon
#44. All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#45. He didn't say much at our first meeting - nor at any of our meetings since, come to think of it - but left him into a room, and everyone in it seems to breathe a sigh of relief. I have never in my life had that effect on anyone; I can't imagine why not.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#46. Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth.
Mary Ann Brantley
#47. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#48. This is, of course, the privilege of love, to bear witness to a strong man's grief over the little sister he could never save, as much as he has tried to, with every moment of life.
Mary Ann Rivers
#49. She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!
Mary Ann Shaffer
#50. You can purchase my silence with torrid details, you know.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#51. I think if you love somebody, and know you want to be with them forever, it doesn't matter how it starts, just so long as it doesn't end.
Mary Ann Rivers
#52. All I could do was scream, "How dare you! What have you DONE?! Put my books back!
Mary Ann Shaffer
#53. I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#54. What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#55. If I'm broken, the break will be clean and easily mended. If he breaks, I'm not sure if there will be enough pieces to approximate. I can afford to go along with what he thinks will protect him. I can have this, and I can give him what he thinks he needs, even if he may deserve better.
Mary Ann Rivers
#56. That's just it, Carrie. I'm not going to burden you. You would take it all, I can tell. God, it's tempting. You're tempting, and more so than just this," he says, gesturing his hand around the pergola. "You and your big, clear eyes that make me just want to lie down with you and rest.
Mary Ann Rivers
#57. Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet ... it's a tuba among the flutes.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#58. I told him that if one had to ask which, it generally meant neither.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#59. I hoped that Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey, and I - the Baby Sitters Club - would stay together for a long time.
Ann M. Martin
#61. Yes, I believe the greatest blessing any one can have is to be a failure, this is the first step towards the success,
Mary Ann Templeton
#63. He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#64. Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#65. The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
Mary Ann Mobley
#66. My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.
Mary Ann Mobley
#67. Oh dear, I want to nuzzle into my sofa, but I have to get up and put on an evening dress.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#68. He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#69. I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#70. Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#71. It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.
Mary Ann Glendon
#72. I could tell you more about reading and how it perked up our spirits while the Germans were here.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#74. To have the love of this man, who knows what it is to sacrifice his life for love, I would have waited longer.
Mary Ann Rivers
#75. My friend Mrs. Maugery bought a pamphlet that once belonged to you, too. It is called 'Was There a Burning Bush? A Defense of Moses and the Ten Commandments'. She liked your margin note, "Word of God or crowd control???" Did you ever decide which?
Mary Ann Shaffer
#76. I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.
Mary Ann Mobley
#77. Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#78. Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#79. Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a suitably concluded literary experience.
Mary Ann Tolbert
#80. She was showing me her treasures, Sophie
her eyes did not leave my face once. We were both so solemn, and I, for once, didn't start crying; I just held out my arms. She climbed right into them and under the covers with me
and went sound asleep.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#81. Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#82. The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#83. Prayer is lifting up empty hands to an abundant God. Harvey Kneisel, missionary
Mary Ann Bridgwater
#85. My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#86. Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol' paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places.
Mary Ann Rivers
#87. All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child
Mary Ann Glendon
#88. Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic ... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.
Gavin MacLeod
#89. Things that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right." While
Mary-Ann Kirkby
#90. (I love Mary Anne dearly, but she was no help. She still thinks you score touchdowns in baseball.)
Ann M. Martin
#91. Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#92. I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#93. I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
Mary Ann Mobley
#94. He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#95. I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ]
Mary Ann Shaffer
#96. He is so shy, Juliet. He always has been-I don't think anybody's ever been in love with him, or him with anybody before, so he'd not know the right thing to do about it. It'd be just like him to hide away mementos and never say a word. I despair for him, I do.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#97. I myself have never had one, but now I can picture one. I didn't like Wuthering Heights at first, but the minute that specter, Cathy, scrabbled her bony fingers on the window glass - I was grasped by the throat and not let go. With that Emily I could hear Heathcliff's pitiful cries upon the moors.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#98. I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#99. Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - When adding eggs, break the shells first.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#100. Let's go to that Jamaican place around the corner from you."
"Cluck You Chicken? Are you serious? The health department probably uses that restaurant for training exercises.
Mary Ann Rivers
