Mary Robison Quotes

#1. Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.

Mary Robison

#2. Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Joan Jett

#3. O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

William Shakespeare

#4. The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

George MacDonald

#5. They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing

Mary Robison

#8. You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.

Mary Robison

#9. Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

Michael Emerson

#10. Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

Nelly Mazloum

#11. I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor ... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.

Mary Robison

#12. Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Hal Boyle

#13. I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Tim Roth

#14. I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Robin McKinley

#15. Sitting in the shadows, with a killer, in an empty building, gazing at the corpse of another killer. When had her life grown so strange?

Lindsay Buroker

#16. Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

Angelina Jolie

#17. It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.
Carl Costanza - Seven Up

Janet Evanovich

#18. Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

Monica Bellucci