Dorries Quotes & Sayings

The reverend began droning the oft-repeated rites and vows of the marriage ceremony. He dared not look either participant in the eye, but directed the promises of love, honor, and obedience to the lofty bookshelves. Only once did he make the mistake of focusing on anything more animated, and then only because the cut over the groom's eye had begun to leak again and a bright red spot of blood dripped onto the front of his shirt, staining the stark whiteness of the silk like an omen of tragedy to come. — Marsha Canham

Learning how to play an instrument has always been near the top of my to-do list, but what are the chances now? There's little downtime with a column and a two-year-old, and after reading Goldilocks and the three Bears and going through half a bottle of wine with dinner on an average evening, imagining a day when I join Nathaniel on the Elgar Cello Concerto is not a vision but a hallucination. I'm at the point where the things on your to-do list get transferred to a should-have-done list, and one reason I write a column is for the privilege of vicariously sampling other worlds, dropping in with my passport, my notebook and my curiosity. — Steve Lopez

It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries. Like other liberation movements, feminism has an ideology and a goal. It is not about personal liberty and freedom, but the emancipation from oppression and tyranny for ALL women, whatever our race or class. — Julie Bindel

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children. — Lois Wyse

Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on. — Nadine Dorries

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book — Courtney Love

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while. — Nadine Dorries

Where, incidentally, a holiday meal was not being served. My mother worked as a waitress at Palmer's Supper — Larry Watson

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Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction. — Nadine Dorries

The to-dos were sordid rather than exciting, perhaps because nearly everybody was approaching middle age. — James Purdy

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms ... I once loved the whole world because you were in it. — Brunhilda Of Austrasia

Don't fall in love with your own excuses. — Brian Tracy

When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The early anatomists were dealing with a chronic shortage of bodies for dissection, and consequently were motivated to come up with ways to preserve the ones they managed to obtain. Blanchard's textbook was the first to cover arterial embalming. He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I've been to frat parties like that. — Mary Roach

The public takes little notice of those who want to abolish abortion. They are dismissed as extremists. If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles ... My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit ... saving some lives is better than saving no lives at all. I hope pro-lifers will come to share my view that some progress is better than no progress. — Nadine Dorries

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her. — Nadine Dorries