Matronly Quotes

#1. People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

Michael Kors

#2. she had that kind of matronly plumpness that comes with age, pasta, and a comfortable life.

Jim Butcher

#3. I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

Jane Fonda

#4. I study long-married couples and decide that wives are like bras: sometimes the most matronly are the most supportive.

Helen Ellis

#5. My son," and the matronly voice seemed to smile, "you must walk through darkness to appreciate the light.

Christopher Starr

#6. The woman who entered had the plump, matronly figure of the Good Gramma in a children's story and the beady eyes of a dick in a department store.

Stephen King

#7. Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

Allison Tolman

#8. I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.

Jimmy Carr

#9. I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Steve Lacy

#10. Economists like to strike the pose of a scientist. I know, because I often do it myself. When I teach undergraduates, I very consciously describe the field of economics as a science, so no student would start the course thinking he was embarking on some squishy academic endeavor.'1

Ha-Joon Chang

#11. Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

Michael Mann

#12. Lick a finger: feel the now.

Annie Dillard

#13. When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. Have you been sniffing fairy farts?

Kim Harrison

#15. That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Nicole Kidman

#16. To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Felix Adler

#17. We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

Woodrow Wilson

#18. Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

Gautama Buddha

#19. For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, like the flowers that falleth on the grass, like the wine that is poured out and soaks into the earth.

Marion Zimmer Bradley