Top 100 Merrill's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.
Robert Merrill
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
Merrill Markoe
#10. 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
#11. Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
James Merrill
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
Merrill Markoe
#15. It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Merrill Markoe
#16. 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
#17. Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.
Merrill Markoe
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.
Douglas Merrill
#21. The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.
Douglas Merrill
#22. An object only receives its true value from the one who cares the most about it.
Brianna J. Merrill
#23. 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
#24. Where I once found it safer to stay in the background ... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#25. 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
#26. The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.
Merrill Markoe
#27. 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
#28. I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
Robbie Merrill
#30. I've made my life's work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it's harder now than ever before because there's so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.
Merrill Markoe
#31. It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.
Dina Merrill
#32. 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
#33. And Mom? You're a good girl."
"Thank you. That's very sweet of you, Chuck"
Though what I was really thinking was: This is too fucking weird.
Merrill Markoe
#34. It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.
Robbie Merrill
#35. And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
James Merrill
#36. Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.
John Irving
#37. physical expressions of love were often more important than words because you can't fake a touch. Your intentions are clear. Even if you're having sex with someone, it's clear whether it's fucking or making love. It's the truest way you can express yourself.
R.L. Merrill
#38. A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.
Merrill Markoe
#39. Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign.
Merrill Markoe
#40. The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.
Dina Merrill
#41. It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.
Merrill Markoe
#42. With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real ... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.
Douglas Merrill
#43. Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
James Merrill
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live.
Charles Merrill
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
Sam Trammell
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
Terence Winter
#58. Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.
Douglas Merrill
#59. 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
#60. 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
#63. 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
#64. I'm clear with all my bitches ... I hump her till she bites me. Then it's adios bitches, time for BALL.
Merrill Markoe
#65. Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
E. Merrill Root
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. 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
#73. I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.
Dina Merrill
#74. 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
#75. A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas Merrill
#76. 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
#77. If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
Charles E. Merrill
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.
Merrill Markoe
#81. I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.
Merrill Markoe
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. [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
#86. Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?
Bob Merrill
#87. 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
#88. Here's how I pray in these situations: 'God, I'm really dumb. Please make your will painfully obvious to me.
Robin Merrill
#89. I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
James Merrill
#90. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.
Douglas Merrill
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
James Merrill
#95. 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
#96. When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.
Merrill Markoe
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. The way you think you spend your time and the way you actually spend your time are rarely the same.
Douglas Merrill
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