Mary Sue Quotes

#1. A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. The next morning, boom! She found herself waking in bed next to the handsome, rogue-supporting character of her favourite novel. Out of the blue, Mary Sue was inside the #1 bestseller, epic fantasy novel ever written.

Mads Sukalikar

#3. The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.

Daisaku Ikeda

#4. Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. My mother was a good Catholic
she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

Mary Sue Terry

#7. For every man, there is a way to happiness in every point of his life! The door to happiness is always open; there is no such a thing to miss the entry! All points are entry points to happiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Magic
Sandra's seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.

Shel Silverstein

#9. She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue.
But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.

J.R. Ward

#10. Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. A serious student of any instrument who really worked hard could usually learn to play that instrument at the 85 percent level, no matter what the difficulties, he told her, but the last 15 percent on any instrument requires "something out of the ordinary" from a player.

Mary Sue Welsh

#12. Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.

David Letterman

#13. I'm a feminist at heart, and I'm totally aware of why people have an issue with this show.

Jamie Dornan

#14. Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.

Sue Monk Kidd

#15. Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. 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

#18. Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

Alan Cohen

#19. Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

Helene D. Gayle

#20. You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

#21. Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.

Sidney Crosby

#22. Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

Mary Sue Terry

#23. A man's kiss is his signature.

Mae West

#24. If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

Mary Sue Milliken

#25. When Sue Wears Red When Susanna Jones wears red Her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the age. Come with a blast of trumpets, Jesus! When Susanna Jones wears red A queen from some time-dead Egyptian night Walks once again. Blow trumpets, Jesus! And

Mary D. Esselman

#26. One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own authority.

Sue Monk Kidd

#27. People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

Justin Verlander

#28. My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

T Bone Burnett