Top 100 Quotes About Mira
#1. I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way.
Mira Grant
#2. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.
Mira Grant
#3. The sky was a flawless blue, the color of surgical gloves.
Mira Grant
#4. Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#5. Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world.
Mira Jacob
#6. Humanity has always been disturbingly happy to sacrifice its future on the alter of right now.
Mira Grant
#7. As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living.
Mira Grant
#8. That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot.
Mira Grant
#9. The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.
Mira Grant
#10. People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it.
Mira Grant
#11. Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
Mira Nair
#12. You may think you're doing the right thing, and hell, you may even be right, but when you don't let anyone watch over your shoulder, how the fuck are the rest of us supposed to know?
Mira Grant
#13. The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.
Mira Grant
#14. It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to try very, very hard, and don't much care about possibly losing a few fingers in the process.
Mira Grant
#15. You don't like Blue, do you?"
"No," Mira said, caught off guard by the change of subject.
"I was worried he was doing his knight-in-tarnished-armor thing and it was winning you over.
Sarah Cross
#16. That's the danger of genius. One way or another, it's going to destroy the world.
Mira Grant
#17. I just want to know what I'm going to be freaking out about before I waste energy freaking out about the wrong things. Conservation of panic is important.
Mira Grant
#18. Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress
Mira Grant
#19. Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?" asked Becks. "Is it a union requirement or something?
Mira Grant
#20. But my name is Georgia Mason. And I am here to tell you the truth.
Mira Grant
#21. Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always" ...
Mira Grant
#22. You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.'
Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's ... almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.
Mira Grant
#23. I think I just had a minor psychotic episode or maybe a breakdown or something, but it's cool; I'm feeling basically okay now," I replied, closing the van doors. "You?
Mira Grant
#25. There were always going to be people willing to trade a place in a cage for a gun and somebody they could point it at. No
Mira Grant
#26. The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
Mira Sorvino
#27. The fact that he was still smiling was either a testament to his training or an argument in favor of stimulants.
Mira Grant
#28. I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?
Mira Sorvino
#29. I guess when you're one of the richest people on the planet, you can buy yourself a window that never shows you anything ugly.
Mira Grant
#30. Everyone belongs somewhere. Some of us are just lucky enough to figure out where it is while there's still time for us to find a way to get there. And once we arrive, we will never, ever leave.'
Juliet Seghers-Ward
Mira Grant
#31. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.
Mira Grant
#32. I don't deal well with being alone. Maybe that's why I decided to go crazy instead.
Mira Grant
#33. I would have dismissed [the email] as spam, except for the first word: urgent. People stopped flinging that word around like confetti after the Rising. Somehow, the potential for missing the message that zombies just ate your mom made offering to give people a bigger dick seem less important.
Mira Grant
#34. Tansy had acted like a thug and reacted like a heroine, and if that wasn't one of the best combinations I'd ever encountered, I didn't know what was.
Mira Grant
#35. Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.
Mira Jacob
#36. We're all monsters ... Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you're willing to eat the world if that's what you have to do to keep yourself alive.
Mira Grant
#37. No vampires? You know, the kind that sparkle? I giggle to myself, thinking "Go Team Edward!" - Willow
Mira Monroe
#38. Oh, dear God - " "Pretty sure God's not here just now. Leave a message. Maybe He'll get back to you.
Mira Grant
#39. The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.
Mira Grant
#40. In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.
Mira Nair
#41. And those people? They like it when you're scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth,
Mira Grant
#42. I'm going to aerosolize me some dead guys.
Mira Grant
#43. I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.
Mira Grant
#44. I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
Mira Bartok
#45. There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.
Mira Grant
#46. Hate to ask you this, Sal, but is it all right if we don't go straight back to your house? I think I need to stop at the hospital." I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand as I forced myself to sit up. "Okay," I said, in a small voice.
Mira Grant
#47. A fresh Coke would keep me from thinking too hard about the tools he was using to do the job.
Mira Grant
#48. That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth?
Mira Grant
#49. Funny, a witch who likes dogs over cats. I think I like this about you. - Rhydian
Mira Monroe
#50. For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
Mira Nair
#51. Oh, jeez. Is that a spleen?" "I think that's a spleen, yes.
Mira Grant
#52. All groups are a little intimidated by ya show of power. I mean who ever thought the monarchy was dead didn't realize it changed zip codes. - Cross
Mira Monroe
#53. I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
Mira Sorvino
#54. Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.
Mira Sorvino
#55. Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.
Mira Bartok
#56. I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
Mira Nair
#57. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.
Mira Bartok
#58. My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
Mira Grant
#59. Marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It's a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn't recognize him.
He didn't like it. Not at all.
Mira Lyn Kelly
#60. Do your research. Do your homework. Learn what this man would do to our country in the name of preserving a brand of freedom that is as destructive as it is impossible to secure. Know your enemy.
Mira Grant
#61. Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.
Mira Grant
#62. Blue was standing over her, shaking out his wet hair like an annoying blue dog. Beads of water clung to the muscle of his chest. He was wiry, not buff like Henley, but his body made up for size with definition.
Nothing could make up for his personality.
"Stop dripping on me," Mira snapped.
Sarah Cross
#63. Of course, if we were lucky, we wouldn't be getting chased by an army of zombies through the quarantine area that used to be downtown Santa Cruz. We'd be somewhere safer, like Bikini Atoll just before the bomb testing kicked off.
Mira Grant
#64. I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
Mira Nair
#65. Why can't you just say 'don't breathe the water' like a normal person?"
"Because I'm a doctor, and they teach us never to use little words where big ones will do.
Mira Grant
#66. George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.
Mira Grant
#67. People used to travel for fun before the Rising. Can you believe that? - Alaric Kwong
Mira Grant
#68. People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.
Mira Grant
#69. Tom, you're with me. Bring the tranq gun, we don't want to kill her, but if she so much as looks funny in my direction, you're going to send her off to play with the magical pastel bunnies in the Shouldn't-Have-Fucking-Done-That Meadow.
Mira Grant
#70. Mira shrugged. If Rachel thought long-distance romance was weird, she'd think the truth - a fake long-distance romance, complete with eight months' worth of love letters that Mira had written to cover her tracks - was a whole lot weirder.
Sarah Cross
#71. Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
Mira Nair
#72. Know your enemy. That's what freedom really means.
Mira Grant
#73. Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?
Mira Grant
#74. We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.
Mira Bartok
#75. He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know ... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.
Mira Grant
#76. An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot
Mira Jacob
#77. I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.
Mira Nair
#78. Memory, if it is anything at all, is unreliable.
Mira Bartok
#79. When she brought Mira up, Eve gave Roarke another glance. "Don't talk to him," she warned. "He can get bitchy when he's in this deep. I don't know if we have any of that tea stuff."
"I had it stocked, and I don't get bitchy. Bloody, buggering HELL."
Eve just rolled her eyes and got the tea.
J.D. Robb
#80. Maybe if we'd had more information...It wouldn't have made a difference at all. Those doors were already locked. What was going to happen was already a foregone conclusion. All that could have changed is the details.
Sometimes, it's the details that matter the most of all.
Mira Grant
#81. Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
Mira Nair
#82. That meant we needed to play to our strengths, and our strengths came from lifelong training in shoving microphones at danger and demanding that it explain itself. It wasn't much. It was going to have to be enough.
Mira Grant
#83. The next person who says "I'm sorry" is going to get punched in the nose. Because "I'm sorry" doesn't do a damn thing except remind me that this can't be fixed. This is my world now. And I don't want it.
Mira Grant
#84. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#85. A collection of takeout boxes slumped together like old men in bad weather.
Mira Jacob
#86. In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
Mira Nair
#87. Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes that's the last thing that anybody wants to do. And sometimes, it's the only thing we can do.
Mira Grant
#88. Eloquent and moving ... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.
Mira Bartok
#89. The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.
Mira Grant
#90. I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
Mira Nair
#91. Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.
Mira Grant
#92. I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.
Mira Grant
#93. The only reward you get for making it to the end is making it to the end - you get to know the truth, and that's it.
Mira Grant
#94. I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem
Mira Sorvino
#95. I heard all three bolts click home. Even if I screamed, they'd never let me back inside. That's the protocol when you're in the field. No matter how loudly you yell, they never let you in. Not if they want to live, anyway.
Mira Grant
#96. I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.
Mira Gonzalez
#97. It was the smell of home. Home isn't always a good place to be.
Mira Grant
#99. I figure I'll just keep on going the way I am until something starts making sense."
"What if nothing ever does?"
"I guess if that happens, I'll start hoping all the God freaks are right, and there's some superior intelligence up there treating us all like laboratory rats.
Mira Grant
#100. You're a miracle," he breathed.
"You're a miracle," the mermaid echoed, before it leaned up and carefully, almost delicately, ripped away his throat.
Mira Grant
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