Maureen Walls Quotes

#1. When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

Lynn Coady

#2. I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

Octavia E. Butler

#3. My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Taylor Dayne

#4. No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

Jeannette Walls

#5. I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

George Washington

#6. What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Brian told Mom we needed to keep Maureen away from those nutty Pentecostals, but Mom said we all came to religion in our own individual ways and we each need to respect the religious practices of others, seeing as it was up to every human being to find his or her own way to heaven.

Jeannette Walls

#8. Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.

Maureen Daly

#9. I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Anthony Hecht

#10. People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.

Stephen Covey

#11. On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, Melancholia? Ad nauseam.

Joe Orton

#12. Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

Ralph Marston