Mahoney Quotes & Sayings

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure? — Rosemary Mahoney

You told me once that freedom was my right." I held his gaze. "Maybe you should do something with it. — Samantha Shannon

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday. — Rosemary Mahoney

I don't think I believe in angels, that's all. And if you were one, that would mean I'd have to re-evaluate my beliefs. I'm not quite ready to do that. — Karen Mahoney

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British. — John Mahoney

That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37. — John Mahoney

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents. — Rosemary Mahoney

I read my email aloud to hear how it sounded, then I read it again in a British accent to make sure it didn't come across as pretentious. — Jerry Mahoney

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means. — Rosemary Mahoney

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them. — Rosemary Mahoney

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like ... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor. — John Mahoney

Because I was into like proving myself, which was one of the big things that ah, that the whole military experience sort of offers a kid at that age, um, I went to officer candidate school. Um, and I graduated as a second lieutenant at the age of nineteen. — Peter P. Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel. — Rosemary Mahoney

I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now. — Samantha Shannon

I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something. — John Mahoney

The last door on the second story was the exception. Fresh gold letters:

MAHONEY & ASSOCIATES, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS.

Mahoney sat inside. The only associate was the fifth of rye residing in his bottom desk drawer. — Tim Dorsey

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead. — Peter P. Mahoney

I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor. — Rosemary Mahoney

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. — John Mahoney

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. — Rosemary Mahoney

Moonlight was her favorite thing in the world-apart from brown eyes on a good-looking guy — Karen Mahoney

Children can be wicked, insane, insufferable little shits. And yet I love them. I love them - especially the small ones - because of the way their emotions dance and glow on the surface for all to see. They have neither the guile nor the wile to hide how they feel. Very quickly, you know who they really are. (Rosemary Mahoney) — Meghan Daum

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things. — John Mahoney

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue. — Rosemary Mahoney

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army. — Peter P. Mahoney

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself. — Rosemary Mahoney

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married. — Rosemary Mahoney

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them. — Rosemary Mahoney

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. — Sarah Mahoney

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures. — Rosemary Mahoney

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it. — Victoria Mahoney

The creature had nut-brown skin mixed with patches of ash. It was human-sized and formed, but its skin looked like the bark of an old, old tree. About the same height as Donna, it was spindly with arms and legs that were all joints and angles. Its face was narrow and pointed, with hair on top of its head like thick moss and narrow black eyes that glinted even in the dim light of the room. The thing's body was clothed in lichen and moss, with vines twining around its sharp limbs. The creature opened its lipless mouth, a dark slash across its twisted face.

Donna's mind flashed back to the party and the shadow she'd seen sliding through the darkness outside Xan's house. She hadn't been imagining things, after all.

The wood elves had returned to the city. — Karen Mahoney

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life. — John Mahoney

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano. — John Mahoney

What a thing it would have been to see her take a breath. — Dennis Mahoney

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth. — John Mahoney

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military. — Peter P. Mahoney

At the end of the day, we are Christians, not Paulinians, and so where there is conflict between the teachings of Paul and our Lord, then we should give precedence to the words and actions of Jesus. — Kevin Mahoney

Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield. — Samantha Shannon

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand. — Rosemary Mahoney

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen. — John Mahoney

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England. — John Mahoney

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others. — Rosemary Mahoney

I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it." — Victoria Mahoney

At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freaks like her. — Karen Mahoney

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. — John Mahoney

Bobby noted in his journal. — Richard D. Mahoney

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there.
Trust me. — Samantha Shannon

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored. — Rosemary Mahoney

You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on the Internet. There's motivation to sit at home. You don't have to get dressed up, or be social and for those old enough you don't risk DUI charges by drinking at home at the computer. — Steve Mahoney

The internet has taken away a lot of personalization. A lot of people are writing articles and talking about being able to social network and making these connections but I don't think anything will replace the human connection making an actual conversation to somebody face to face. — Steve Mahoney

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages. — John Mahoney

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. — John Mahoney

For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable. — Victoria Mahoney

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney) — Alane Ferguson

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts. — John Mahoney

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends. — Rosemary Mahoney

He wouldn't have understood if I'd told him why I spend my time with criminals.
He didn't know that I belonged with them. More than I belonged with him. — Samantha Shannon

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe. — Rosemary Mahoney

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China. — Rosemary Mahoney

I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow. — Joe Mahoney

Angels are amongst us Angels all around If we quiet our minds, and open our hearts We will hear their heavenly sound"

- Maria Schembri — Susanna Mahoney

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne. — John Mahoney

Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait."
Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime. — Suzanne Weyn

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years. — Rosemary Mahoney

I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead. — David James Duncan

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt. — Rosemary Mahoney

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch. — John Mahoney

I would never see him again.
But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him.
Now I had only to trust in myself. — Samantha Shannon

Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Right on up and down the line. It was like a complete and total, not a total lie, but just like so much, it was like PR, in other words it was like okay, we've got to sell the war to the American people. — Peter P. Mahoney

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them. — John Mahoney

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric. — Rosemary Mahoney

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you. — Rosemary Mahoney

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers — Samantha Shannon

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can. — John Mahoney

Donna wasn't fooled by his lazy movements and sleep eyes - this guy was sharp, underneath the laid-back exterior. — Karen Mahoney

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue. — Rosemary Mahoney

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age. — Rosemary Mahoney

Dammit woman, stop trying to beat me. I'll sue you for domestic violence. — Karen Mahoney

It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges. — Peter P. Mahoney

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first place, and to write things that might be controversial. I've wasted a lot of time worrying about it: am I tough enough to do it? Well, I guess, or I wouldn't have done it. The day it's too difficult for me, I guess I'll stop. — Rosemary Mahoney

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker. — Victoria Mahoney

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem. — John Mahoney

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions. — Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. — Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it. — Rosemary Mahoney

I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just bothers me. And, when one band or artist gives it away, it devalues the rest of the product from those who would like to make some money or a living from it. — Steve Mahoney

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee. — Rosemary Mahoney

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. — John Mahoney

A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the developing world: Madagascar, Colombia, Tibet, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and India. — Rosemary Mahoney

Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice. — Samantha Shannon

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies. — John Mahoney

Mahoney: You have to live. Mr. Magorium: Darlin' ... I have. — Suzanne Weyn

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen. — John Mahoney

Trust your hopes, not your fears — David Mahoney

I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life. — Victoria Mahoney

If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy. — Steve Mahoney

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination. — Rosemary Mahoney

My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit. — Victoria Mahoney

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things. — Rosemary Mahoney