Top 100 Maureen Quotes
#1. Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#2. I take my best lessons from nature, and nature says 'When something flies at your head- move.
Maureen Johnson
#3. Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.
Maureen Corrigan
#5. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
Maureen Dowd
#6. I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.
Maureen Johnson
#7. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd
#8. But when we live, we believe that we have a right to everything in the universe - that everything is ours to touch.
Maureen Johnson
#9. She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
Maureen Johnson
#10. What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.
Maureen Callahan
#11. If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.
Maureen Howard
#12. I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows ... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.
Maureen Johnson
#13. I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
Maureen Forrester
#14. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet
Maureen O'Hara
#16. Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
Maureen Corrigan
#17. Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.
Maureen Johnson
#18. When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.
Maureen Reagan
#19. It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Maureen Forrester
#20. The essence of learning to be grateful is to learn to want what you have.
Maureen Gaffney
#21. Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
Maureen Forrester
#22. When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.
Maureen O'Hara
#24. need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I
Nora Roberts
#26. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#27. And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?"
"A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.
Maureen Johnson
#28. Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.
Maureen Dowd
#29. Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.
Maureen Murdock
#30. Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.
Maureen Dowd
#31. Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor.
Maureen O'Hara
#32. Maureen wants to touch you," Clary said with a sideways grin. "Bad touch.
Cassandra Clare
#33. I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
Maureen Johnson
#35. We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey.
Maureen F. McHugh
#36. He touched her and found fire. Tasted her and found life.
Maureen Child
#37. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
Maureen Dowd
#38. The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.
Maureen Dowd
#39. The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
Maureen Johnson
#40. I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
Maureen Corrigan
#42. She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)
Maureen Johnson
#43. Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
Maureen Forrester
#44. Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.
Maureen O'Sullivan
#45. The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
Maureen O'Hara
#47. Were you playing with Stuart? she asked.
The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.
Maureen Johnson
#48. The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.
Maureen Johnson
#49. Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!
Maureen Johnson
#50. It was probably a good idea to have you possible future stepmother think you were a little nuts. It would keep her on her toes and dissuade her from trying to sit down and have touchy-feely talks. Not that she expected that from Julia. Julia looked like she might head-butt people in meetings.
Maureen Johnson
#51. Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant,
Diane Chamberlain
#52. Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.
Maureen Dowd
#53. Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.
Maureen Connolly
#54. She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.
Maureen Johnson
#55. This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.
Maureen Chiquet
#56. When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.
Maureen Murdock
#57. One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra
Maureen Johnson
#58. I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.
Maureen Howard
#59. I was in my recliner bundled up in my terrycloth robe, a gift from my great aunt Maureen, that came with some sage advice: darling, after a warm body, a terrycloth robe is the next best thing to cuddle up with on a cold night.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#60. It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.
Maureen Daly
#61. I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.
Maureen F. McHugh
#62. I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.
Maureen Gibbon
#63. In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.
Susan Howe
#64. People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.
Maureen Johnson
#65. I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.
Maureen Brady
#66. If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.
Maureen Dowd
#67. How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
Maureen O'Hara
#68. I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I live the entire history of my country and people.
Maureen Johnson
#69. Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.
Maureen Johnson
#70. You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.
Alice Hoffman
#72. None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
Maureen Howard
#73. When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.
Maureen Dowd
#74. Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
Maureen O'Hara
#75. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
Maureen Brady
#76. Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
Maureen Johnson
#77. Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks with the laugh lines and love handles will be the lucky ones.
Maureen Dowd
#78. Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
Maureen Howard
#79. We had the Belle Epoque. Now we have the Botox Epoque, permeated by plastic emotions from antidepressants and plastic veneers from collagen, silicone, cosmetic surgery and Botox.
Maureen Dowd
#80. Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
Maureen Johnson
#81. One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?"
"No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too."
"I'll take that as a yes," I said.
Maureen Johnson
#82. Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.
Maureen Johnson
#83. Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.
Maureen Hawkins
#84. Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
Maureen Murphy
#85. After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
Maureen O'Hara
#86. Spicy food and I have a close relationship - an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain ... which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.
Maureen Johnson
#87. Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.
Maureen Corrigan
#88. It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking, Oh, right! Kissing! Quickly! Quickly! More movement! Deploy tongue!
Maureen Johnson
#89. Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
Maureen Chiquet
#90. Things change. Never act is if situations won't change
Maureen Johnson
#91. I miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.
Maureen Johnson
#92. Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.
Maureen A. Miller
#93. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
Maureen Corrigan
#94. John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara
#95. How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?
Maureen Duffy
#96. Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.
Maureen Chiquet
#97. , I don't think you would just be treated like a member ofan agency. You'd be treated like an asset. And assets don't get to have lives.
Maureen Johnson
#98. I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.
Maureen O'Sullivan
#99. I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.
Maureen Stapleton
#100. I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.
Maureen Johnson
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