Top 100 Merrill Quotes
#1. I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
Sam Trammell
#2. I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
Terence Winter
#3. A lighthearted prayer for Thanksgiving:
May you have turkey in season
Cranberries for squeezin'
Gravy (within reason)
And leftovers worth freezin'!
Amen
by Merrill Miller of Scottdale, PA
Mary Beth Lind
#4. For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.
Suze Orman
#5. You've witnessed what you c-c-c-call a miracle and now you believe-you believe everything," Pastor Merrill said. "But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief-real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.
John Irving
#6. Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls ... The genius of the irrational ... This is the body's intelligence, not the mind's. Every living cell possess it ... [the] indomitable will to survive.
David Marusek
#7. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.
Ann Hood
#8. The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
John McKinley
#9. Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me."
Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.
Tracie Peterson
#10. What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.
Richard Grasso
#11. I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.
Merrill Markoe
#12. Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living.
Michael Dirda
#13. Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.
John Irving
#14. A deeply felt novel ... The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
#15. It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
Paul Samuelson
#16. When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.
Erin Duffy
#17. Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.
Michael Chabon
#18. Everything is so much more intense when I'm out of my body- the movie soundtrack is louder, the television screen is brighter, Courtney Merrill's perfume could gag a pig.
Gina Rosati
#19. You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
Jim Rogers
#21. Though it seems like time itself moves more slowly when you're in the presence of people who actually see and hear you. There's a certain weight to a moment that never comes when you feel invisible.
Merrill Markoe
#22. A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas Merrill
#23. As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.
Merrill Markoe
#24. I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.
Dina Merrill
#25. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#27. You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.
Douglas Merrill
#28. They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.
Merrill Markoe
#29. Nor do I try to keep a garden, only
An avocado in a glass of water --
Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later,
When the small gilt leaves have grown
Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes,
And start another. I am earth's no less.
James Merrill
#30. Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
Merrill Markoe
#31. Whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.
Merrill Markoe
#32. I'm clear with all my bitches ... I hump her till she bites me. Then it's adios bitches, time for BALL.
Merrill Markoe
#33. I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.
Merrill Markoe
#36. That's just stupid," said Chuck. "Have a look around at the rest of the animal kingdom lately? I'll have sex with anyone who doesn't try to kill me."
"And even then, as long as their butt smells good, I'm in," said Johnny Depp.
Merrill Markoe
#37. Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin
Merrill J. Bateman
#38. Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.
Douglas Merrill
#41. With the growing popularity in e-learning, it occurred to me that the e should mean more than electronic. If we are going to call it e-learning, shouldn't it be effective, efficient, and engaging?
M David Merrill
#42. Further, more African Americans today are under criminal justice supervision - either in prison, on parole or probation - than were enslaved 10 years before the Civil War (Alexander 2012
Merrill Singer
#43. Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
E. Merrill Root
#44. The way you think you spend your time and the way you actually spend your time are rarely the same.
Douglas Merrill
#46. Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.
Merrill Markoe
#47. When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.
Merrill Markoe
#48. We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews (laughs). But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.
Robbie Merrill
#49. But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
James Merrill
#50. Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.
Merrill Brockway
#51. Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.
Douglas Merrill
#52. We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
E. Merrill Root
#53. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.
Douglas Merrill
#54. If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
Charles E. Merrill
#55. Here's how I pray in these situations: 'God, I'm really dumb. Please make your will painfully obvious to me.
Robin Merrill
#56. Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.
Merrill J. Bateman
#57. Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?
Bob Merrill
#59. [Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike.
Helen Merrill
#60. I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.
Merrill Markoe
#61. I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.
Merrill Markoe
#62. The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.
Merrill Markoe
#63. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.
Lee W. Merrill
#64. I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
James Merrill
#65. The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.
Dina Merrill
#66. The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.
Merrill Markoe
#67. Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
Merrill Markoe
#68. Where I once found it safer to stay in the background ... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#69. Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.
Douglas Merrill
#70. An object only receives its true value from the one who cares the most about it.
Brianna J. Merrill
#71. The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.
Douglas Merrill
#72. Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.
Douglas Merrill
#73. What am I waiting for, Emily asked herself. For each Saturday in Young in Heart to end? For Mrs. Conwey to die? For news from some college and a sense of what next year would be?
Charles Merrill
#74. Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units. It was also the first war in history in which air power was used to defeat ground forces.
Merrill McPeak
#75. Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.
Merrill Markoe
#76. Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
#77. It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Merrill Markoe
#78. No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
Merrill Markoe
#79. The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.
Merrill Markoe
#80. My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and self-absorbed. In all likelihood, if they were children instead of dogs, I would have foisted more Charlie Sheens or Kardashians onto our crumbling culture.
Merrill Markoe
#81. Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
James Merrill
#82. Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.
Merrill Markoe
#83. You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
Merrill Markoe
#84. At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
James Merrill
#85. Well, there's two kinds of peeing ... There's regular peeing, because you have to pee. And then there's auxiliary competitive peeing. For acquiring empire. I'm all about the real estate.
Merrill Markoe
#86. Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
E. Merrill Root
#87. When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.
Merrill Markoe
#88. If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.
Robert Merrill
#90. Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.
Merrill Markoe
#91. Mama only snorted. A terse, ironic half laugh, the kind of angry chortle that powered Mama through her daily drudgery, as if it were the exhaust from an internal engine that runs on pure sass.
Stefan Merrill Block
#92. A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
Merrill Markoe
#93. Our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.
Merrill Markoe
#94. Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.
Douglas Merrill
#95. Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient.
Dina Merrill
#96. We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live.
Charles Merrill
#97. Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#98. Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.
Merrill C. Tenney
#99. Once you get into it, it's all you can think about. Look, I know you don't trust my judgment because I eat cat shit. Someday I'll explain that to you. But right now do what I say. Just pick up the ball and throw it.
Merrill Markoe
#100. Why do you always come in to kiss me while I'm on the toilet?" I asked.
"Makes us feel close to you," Chuck said, surprised I would ask. "Peeing is one of the special things we share.
Merrill Markoe
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