Top 84 Quotes About Mayberry
#1. I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
#2. Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk!
Dave Mustaine
#3. I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
Susan Straight
#4. People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
Tom Shales
#5. There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.
John DiIulio
#6. In my mind I was Laura Croft, trapped in Mayberry.
Liliana Hart
#7. You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.
Tim Conway
#8. When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.
Andy Griffith
#9. One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.
Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.
Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.
-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life
Lauren Myracle
#10. Far, far easier to batten down the hatches and lock the world out than take a chance.
Sarah Mayberry
#11. Bull. Shit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him like a cat on a curtain, Denise said with undisguised relish.
Sarah Mayberry
#12. Sometimes, even when you know someone is a hundred different kinds of wrong for you, you get sucked into old patterns and behaviors.
Sarah Mayberry
#13. Put me down, I'm too heavy."
"You're small enough to fit in my pocket.
Sarah Mayberry
#14. She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed.
Sarah Mayberry
#15. Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.
Lauren Mayberry
#16. Her perfume enveloped him as he reached for her. His hands smoothed over soft fabric before finding the warmth of her skin. She lifted her mouth to his and kissed him hungrily, greedily.
She tasted so good. Like sin. Like every dirty thought he'd ever had.
Sarah Mayberry
#17. Suddenly he caught his reflection in the mirror behind her. His face was twisted into a dark scowl, and he was standing there naked, with a boner, and another man's business card in his hand.
He looked like a dick.
Sarah Mayberry
#18. But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless life taught them not to be. And people who saw the world through the prism of their own needs first and foremost would always be that way.
Sarah Mayberry
#19. I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.
Lauren Mayberry
#20. I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done about something, it feels better when you surround yourself with people.
Lauren Mayberry
#21. I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.
Lauren Mayberry
#22. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.
Lauren Mayberry
#23. He would let Violet find her own way and time to tell Elizabeth. In the interim, he would listen and hold her hand and offer his counsel, but he would not push. He understood now how deep her wounds ran, how hard it was for her to trust that she could make mistakes and still deserve love.
Sarah Mayberry
#24. A tip for you-Little Miss Innocent routine only works when there's a credible belief that innocence is possible.
Sarah Mayberry
#25. Sadly, however, the sight of her generous D cups no longer sparked an ounce of interest from Little Sam, the man in charge of social activities.
Sarah Mayberry
#26. The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.
Lauren Mayberry
#27. If I let you go are you going to hit me again?"
"What do you think?"
"Then I'm not going to let you go.
Sarah Mayberry
#28. I don't know Justin Bieber so I wouldn't want to marry a man I don't know.
Lauren Mayberry
#29. I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.
Lauren Mayberry
#30. Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.
Lauren Mayberry
#31. [Jack] checked his watch, then returned to studying her back. damn if she didn't have a nice back, too - smooth, unblemished skin, nicely shaped vertebrae-
He pulled himself up short. Nicely shaped vertebrae? Was he going insane?
Sarah Mayberry
#32. I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.
Lauren Mayberry
#33. I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all.
Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.
Sarah Mayberry
#34. I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.
Lauren Mayberry
#35. I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.
Lauren Mayberry
#36. Don't freak out, I'm getting into the bed," he said.
Sarah Mayberry
#37. I will never not want you, understand? I love you. I adore you. I admire you. I desire you. You are my heart. My blood, my bones. My everything.
Sarah Mayberry
#38. New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover, Jake said.
Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it.
Sarah Mayberry
#40. For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!
Lauren Mayberry
#41. You know I know next to zip about gardening, right?
It's easy. You buy the pretty pots from the nursery, you stick them in the ground. If they die, you buy more. If not, you brag like there's no tomorrow.
Sarah Mayberry
#42. I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.
Lauren Mayberry
#43. I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.
Lauren Mayberry
#44. I don't want you to go anywhere, okay? Just because we disagree on something doesn't mean that I don't still love you. I will always love you, no matter what.
Sarah Mayberry
#45. He couldn't just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subtle, build up to it. Explain himself.
"I love you."
Of course, straight to the point was also an effective strategy.
Sarah Mayberry
#46. I swear there are about a million rocks underneath me," [Dylan] said grouchily.
Think of it as therapeutic. Like a shiatsu massage." (Sadie)
You obviously have a much better imagination than me," he said.
Sarah Mayberry
#47. I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.
Lauren Mayberry
#49. I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."
Lauren Mayberry
#50. I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.
Lauren Mayberry
#51. Then believe, baby. I promise that if you fall, I will catch you. And I know you'll do the same for me.
Sarah Mayberry
#52. he ducked his head around the corner he saw that he
Sarah Mayberry
#53. Sometimes, life just worked out the way it was supposed to.
Sarah Mayberry
#54. Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.
Lauren Mayberry
#55. That's called terror. Its confusion and a little paranoia and a nice big dose of panic.
Jonathan Mayberry
#56. Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.
Sarah Mayberry
#57. My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
Lauren Mayberry
#58. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.
Sarah Mayberry
#59. I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone's chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music."
He didn't bother hiding his surprise. "Wow. That must be ... messy."
"That didn't sound too great, did it? Let me reassure you - I'm a doctor, not a serial killer.
Sarah Mayberry
#60. Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?"
"Careful. You're talking about the man I love.
Sarah Mayberry
#61. She should have looked ridiculous, standing there wet and bedraggled in her silly underwear, but she looked magnificent. Like some kind of mythical goddess rising from the mists of time.
Statuesque, utterly feminine. Breathtaking.
Sarah Mayberry
#62. You realise you're going to owe me dinner after this, right?"
"How does McDonald's sound?"
"Inadequate.
Sarah Mayberry
#63. Lucus?
She found him on the bed in the master suite, lying with his arms crossed behind his head, glaring at the ceiling as though it had done him wrong in some way.
Sarah Mayberry
#64. She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.
Sarah Mayberry
#65. No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula ... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.
Lauren Mayberry
#66. Poppy: What makes you think I'm having dinner with you?
Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.
Sarah Mayberry
#67. He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed.
Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie's butt.
Sarah Mayberry
#68. Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?
Sarah Mayberry
#69. Will you calm down for a minute, you psycho chicken, and tell me what the hell is going on?
Sarah Mayberry
#70. I have sex," Grace shrugged.
I meant with a man," Claudia said dryly.
Now why would I ruin something so good by inviting a man along?" Grace asked.
Sarah Mayberry
#71. Sometimes, even though you know something is a mistake, you can't stop yourself from going there.
Sarah Mayberry
#72. Three Denises wobbled in front of her, all of them watching her with fond concern. You're a sweetie. I appreciate you cheering me on from the sidelines. But I think I need to go to the bathroom now and throw up.
Sarah Mayberry
#73. Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
Lauren Mayberry
#74. I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
Lauren Mayberry
#75. She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly killed him. She had no idea how lovable she was. How precious and brave and special.
Sarah Mayberry
#76. One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?
Sarah Mayberry
#77. I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.
Lauren Mayberry
#78. Nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.
Jonathan Mayberry
#79. She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.
Sarah Mayberry
#80. It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.
Lauren Mayberry
#81. Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.
Lauren Mayberry
#82. And the Buck women found themselves in the novel position of having two healthy, strong men at their bidding.
Sarah Mayberry
#83. A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.
Lauren Mayberry
#84. If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.
Lauren Mayberry
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