Maury Quotes

#1. You've gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it's like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

Joe McNally

#2. There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply.
"That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

Connie Chung

#4. I couldn't stop seeing the three of us on the Maury Polvich show doing the big DNA reveal

Pepper Pace

#5. I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.

NeNe Leakes

#6. Then I realized that Victor and Maury were staring at me and that they'd asked me a question about the will but I couldn't remember what it was so I just said, When I die I'd like all my stuff to be left to my cat.

Jenny Lawson

#7. Tohr shook his head. "If you're going to get plastered, why can't you do it like areal man."
"I like the taste of fruit."
"You are what you drink."
The angel glanced up at the clock, "Shit. I missed Maury. But, I DVR'd Ellen.

J.R. Ward

#8. He's magnificent!" Maureen sighed, walking to the window and watching Brevan saunter toward the barn.
"He is not a horse, Maury," Genieva reminded.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#9. Aha! I take my three keys on my ring (car, house, El's) and hold my hand in a fist so that each of the keys is peeking out from between my fingers. I remember seeing this on a self-denfense special of Maury. Television saves lives.

Julie Murphy

#10. Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.

Robert H. Jackson

#11. ho' was one I hadn't heard before," I admitted as we pushed through the door, gently popping an eavesdropping Dick in the side of the head. Dick cursed. Aunt Jettie shrugged. "You leave the TV on during the day. I've watched a lot of Maury Povich.

Molly Harper

#12. People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury.

Jerry Stahl

#13. The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

Geraldo Rivera

#14. I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

Maury Povich

#15. It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#16. Aha!" Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. "You motherfucker! I knew you were the father!

J.R. Ward

#17. About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes.

Maury Povich

#18. Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

Maury Yeston

#19. I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

Maury Yeston

#20. The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

Maury Yeston

#21. Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

Maury Yeston

#22. Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.

Maury Wills

#23. Entertaining doesn't need to be a difficult or daunting process. Throwing an unforgettable party doesn't require a ton of time or money; it just requires a little thought, creativity, and heart.

Maury Ankrum

#24. That's one way to get rid of hallucinations...send them out for groceries.

Maury Chaykin

#25. I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.

Maury Yeston

#26. Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

Maury Massler

#27. I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

Maury Povich

#28. There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#29. As we get older ... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.

Maury Yeston

#30. The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Maury Yeston

#31. I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Maury Yeston

#32. It was the roughest time in my life. Connie helped me through it.

Maury Povich

#33. Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyone who always gets away with everything.

Maury Yeston

#34. Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Maury Yeston

#35. What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

Maury Yeston

#36. Okay, everyone, now inhale ... and then dehale!

Maury Wills

#37. The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#38. It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

Maury John

#39. Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Maury Povich

#40. For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

Maury Yeston