Maaren Johnson Quotes & Sayings

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. — John Lubbock

I've been asked for years to do a reality show. One of my criteria is that I would be given the opportunity to show a strong family unit. — Kim Fields

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? — Elizabeth Bowen

So, Mulder,' Colton spoke in a mocking tone. 'What do you think? Look like the work of Little Green Men?'
'Gray,' Mulder said seriously.
'What?' Colton asked.
'Gray,' Mulder explained. You said green men. A Reticulan's skin tone is gray. They're known for their extraction of human livers due to a lack of iron in the Reticulian Galaxy.'
Colton looked confused- as though he couldn't tell whether Mulder was joking. 'You can't be serious,' he said.
'Do you know how much liver and onions go for on Reticulum?' Mulder asked Colton. — Ellen Steiber

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day. — Stephen King

Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity. — Jay Leno

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids. — Patrick J. Adams

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism. — Bill Bryson

The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age" ... In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather. — Emily Oster

my imagined future and my personal identity collapsed, and I faced the same existential quandaries my patients faced. — Paul Kalanithi

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. — Mae West