Top 63 Maura's Quotes
#1. And Calla was indeed in fine form. She barked, Do you remember how I said that there were three sleepers, and Maura's job was to not wake one of them, and your job was to wake one of the others? Remember how I didn't say anything about the other one? I did not mean bring her to my kitchen.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.
Tess Gerritsen
#4. Maura (fucking witch ass bitch Mussolini Al Qaeda darth vader non-entity)
John Green
#6. We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles
Tess Gerritsen
#7. Nice work," I said, alluding to her nails. "Maura, at The Hair Palace, does them. She's a genius with nails, and she'll bikini wax you till you're bald as a billiard ball.
Janet Evanovich
#8. It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.
Maura Tierney
#9. Then she smiled as if the woman had already helped her. If there was one thing Blue had learned while being a waitress and dog walker and Maura Sargent's daughter, it was that people generally became the kind of person you expected them to be.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.
Beverly Donofrio
#12. gravity chains us to the asphalt with such grace,
we think it is kind.
Maura O'Connor
#13. Something strange and chemical was happening to the Gray Man. Once, he'd been stabbed with a screwdriver - Phillips head, bright blue handle - and falling in love with Maura Sargent was exactly the same.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. A poor childhood in West Virginia had left Maura with a strong sense of self-reliance, a high tolerance for discomfort, and a black sense of humor.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. What did you see?" Blue asked. "How did he die?"
Neeve didn't take her eyes off Maura. "I saw him. And then he disappeared. Into absolutely nothing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#17. Mom! I'm going with the boys to ... do ... something!"
"WHAT SORT OF SOMETHING?" This was Maura, from inside the house.
"SOMETHING DISTASTEFUL!" Blue roared back.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. Suddenly I realized we must take care of things just because they exist.
Maura O'Halloran
#19. Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
Maura Tierney
#21. Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.
Stephen Baxter
#22. Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn't need much - a few quality ingredients, a couple of good friends, and a little bit of creativity.
Maura Madden
#23. The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die."
"Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see."
"Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said.
"I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.
Tess Gerritsen
#25. What do I do?" Blue asked cannily. What have you guys seen me doing?"
"Traveling," Maura replied. "Changing the world."
"Trees in your eyes," Calla added, more gently than usual. "Stars in your heart.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. Do you love him?" Maura asked curiously.
"I'd rather not," Blue replied.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. Maura: is there anything you want to tell me?
me: yeah. I want to tell you that my third nipple is lactating and my butt cheeks are threatening to unionize. what do you think I should do about it?
maura: I feel you're not telling me something.
David Levithan
#29. My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.
Maura Tierney
#30. Everything was for show. He'd always need a group around him, and act out a role, usually one that made him look great to people who didn't do any serious scrutinizing.
Maura Curley
#31. Those redshift numbers. The cephalopods must be leaving at close to light speed."
"Where do you think they are going?"
"Maybe that isn't the point, Maura. Maybe the point is what they are trying to flee.
Stephen Baxter
#33. I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.
Maura Tierney
#34. I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.
Sasha Alexander
#35. "Even Dwarfs Started Small," Calla replied immediately. "In the original German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen."
Maura winced, though Blue couldn't tell if it was at the movie or at Calla's accent.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.
Maura Tierney
#37. Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles
Tess Gerritsen
#38. I'm good," she replied. "But thanks. My mother didn't raise me to be violent."
"Neither," observed the Gray Man, "did mine."
He ate his broccoli and butter and bacon, and Maura ate her butter, and Calla ate her bacon.
Maggie Stiefvater
#39. Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it's there inside you. At Crafternoon, you are a CraftStar.
Maura Madden
#40. There was no kindness on Mr. Gray's face. "Unless you have hidden reserves of strength you didn't display on the way down, we cannot carry her and Maura, and I know which one I prefer.
Maggie Stiefvater
#41. You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.
Maura Tierney
#42. There is something really wrong with those boys. When your mother says don't walk in front of a bus, she has a good reason."
From the kitchen, Persephone's soft voice called, "If someone had stopped you from walking in front of a bus, Maura, Blue wouldn't be here.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
Maura Tierney
#44. What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.
Sasha Alexander
#45. When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.
Tess Gerritsen
#46. If you have a tendency to find yourself in MacGyveresque situations, go ahead and choose a synthetic rope to craft with. I don't want you cursing my name as you hang from a cliff by your swiftly fraying Monkey's Fist necklace.
Maura Madden
#47. This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.
Maura Tierney
#49. Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.
Maggie Stiefvater
#50. Maura is the kind of friend I enjoy slapping doomsday scenarios with. She's not, however, someone makes me want to prevent stay happening.
John Green
#51. I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.
Jeffrey Tambor
#52. I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
Maura Tierney
#53. The Gray Man stood in the doorway behind Maura, his gray suitcase in one hand and a gray jacket slung over the other. He set them both down and straightened. There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.
Maggie Stiefvater
#54. Read books. As often as you can. Mostly classics.
Maura Kelly
#55. When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.
Maura Tierney
#56. I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.
Maura Tierney
#57. One definition of genius is the ability to make connections that other people don't make. That ability to make connections - true learning - happens at quiet times.
Maura Nevel Thomas
#58. Why are you telling me?" Maura asked. "Why is your face so red?"
"Because you're my mother. Because you're an authority figure. Because you're supposed to inform people of your travel plans when you're hiking on dangerous trails. This is what my face always looks like.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. It could kill you, Maura said.
Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. I am the ship in which you sail,
little dancing bones
Maura Dooley
#61. Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
"Drugs might be better.
Maggie Stiefvater
#62. In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in their approach and, a lot of times, that can lead to potential conflict, and then a debate in figuring out who and what is the right way to do it.
Sasha Alexander
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