Mcgrory Quotes

#1. Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

Mary McGrory

#2. You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

Mary McGrory

#3. Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

Matthew McGrory

#4. If there is a secret to writing, I haven't found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.

Mary McGrory

#5. [On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

Mary McGrory

#6. Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

Matthew McGrory

#7. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

Mary McGrory

#8. Short films don't go too far.

Matthew McGrory

#9. Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake ...

Mary McGrory

#10. Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Mary McGrory

#11. My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

Mary McGrory

#12. [On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

Mary McGrory

#13. I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

Matthew McGrory

#14. Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

Mary McGrory

#15. I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

Mary McGrory

#16. And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

Mary McGrory

#17. I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Matthew McGrory

#18. I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Matthew McGrory

#19. Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Mary McGrory

#20. Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Mary McGrory

#21. Look closely at this new being. Learn from him how delightful and simple life is meant to be. It's just an instant of time,

Megan McGrory Massaro

#22. Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

#23. I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

Matthew McGrory

#24. Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

Matthew McGrory

#25. It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

Matthew McGrory

#26. I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

Matthew McGrory

#27. I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

Matthew McGrory

#28. The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret.

Brian McGrory

#29. We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

Mary McGrory

#30. The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

Matthew McGrory

#31. There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

Matthew McGrory

#32. Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

Matthew McGrory

#33. Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

Matthew McGrory

#34. Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.

Matthew McGrory

#35. Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

Mary McGrory

#36. [On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Mary McGrory