Malley Quotes & Sayings

This is ridiculous, she thought. I'm possessed of terrifying powers. Why am I relying on a ridiculous little gun that I picked because I thought it was cute? I don't need this thing. She threw it contemptuously over her shoulder. Damn right! I took out a house of weird fungal cultists that had devoured three teams of supernatural SWAT teams. I am a badass. She paused and expanded her senses outward, searching for any kind of life. Okay, nothing. At least, she thought uneasily, nothing that I can detect. But then why does it smell so bad down here? There's something foul wandering the underground tunnels beneath my — Daniel O'Malley

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity. — Austin O'Malley

I don't ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again. — Caris O'Malley

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. — Austin O'Malley

Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense. — Martin O'Malley

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium. — Martin O'Malley

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense. — Martin O'Malley

bread makes you fat?? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between! — Karen Marie Moning

I've always been a pretty good researcher, said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics. — Daniel O'Malley

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Not that a locked door made a difference to me, since we'd all been rigorously trained in "the ladylike arts of breaking and entering, — Daniel O'Malley

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard. — Austin O'Malley

It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely. — Martin O'Malley

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. — Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists. — Austin O'Malley

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness. — Austin O'Malley

You must speak the truth and you must speak it now, Conor O'Malley. Say it. You must.
Conor shook his head again, his mouth clamped shut tight, but he could feel a burning in his chest, like a fire someone had lit there, a miniature sun, blazing away and burning him from the inside.
"It'll kill me if I do," he gasped.
It will kill you if you do not, the monster said. You must say it. — Patrick Ness

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes. — Austin O'Malley

Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.
Death on her left.
Devil on her right. — Karen Marie Moning

Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back. — Martin O'Malley

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a light. — Austin O'Malley

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow. — Martin O'Malley

If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity. — Martin O'Malley

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license. — Austin O'Malley

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves. — Martin O'Malley

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning. — Austin O'Malley

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it. — Austin O'Malley

I am everything untamed and untameable! It brought Conor up close to its eye. I am this wild earth, come for you, Conor O'Malley. — Patrick Ness

Don't listen to her, Scott. She notices things. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken. — Karen Marie Moning

You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader. — Alex Malley

You look like Cinderella," said Val in awe.
"Yeah, if she'd been into bondage and had Christian Dior for a godmother. — Daniel O'Malley

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think. — Gemma Malley

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. — Austin O'Malley

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important. — Austin O'Malley

I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law. — Martin O'Malley

Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter or faster is dangerous just 'cause they got more brains or quicker feet. Ain't fair. Peeps can't help how they're born. — Karen Marie Moning

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Rook Thomas, you look different somehow."
"Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said.
"Ah, that would be it then. — Daniel O'Malley

That's the Rookery. It is hidden from the eyes of the populace, a secret fortress that protects the normal people even as they remain ignorant of it. It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious. — Daniel O'Malley

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange. — Austin O'Malley

We were ushered into the special reception room that important people go to so they won't have to ensure Customs. It's luxurious and private, and you don't have to mingle with the public. It's the room that you wait in if you are very, very powerful and once got shitfaced with Joseph of Arimathea. Or if you are Mick Jagger. — Daniel O'Malley

She was tall, and dressed in the kind of casual clothes that will let you kill someone easily and won't draw attention from passersby. Khakis are good for this sort of thing. — Daniel O'Malley

Here is the hardest hit of all, O'Malley," Harry said. "Here is the very worst thing I can do to you."
He held out his hand, as if asking for a handshake.
He was asking for a handshake.
Conor responded almost automatically, putting out his own hand and shaking Harry's before he even thought about what he was doing. They shook hands like two businessmen at the end of a meeting.
"Goodbye, O'Malley," Harry said, looking into Conor's eyes. "I no longer see you. — Patrick Ness

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease. — Walter O'Malley

Fuck you, Mr. Beatty! — Caris O'Malley

I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

He looks at me, looks at my head, and his lips twitch like he's trying not to bust out laughing. "You don't need that ... whatever the fuck it is."
"Ain't dying by Shade. It's a MacHalo. — Karen Marie Moning

I am not your dove," he ground out, barely loud enough to hear. "I am a wolf. — Rosemary O'Malley

Most mysteries are soluble in time. — Austin O'Malley

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil. — Austin O'Malley

Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still. — Gemma Malley

The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves. — Gemma Malley

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun. — Austin O'Malley

Everyone would fear her again. And love her, of course. Mrs Pincent needed to be loved as much as wanted to be feared-to her they were two sides of the same coin. Both gave her total control. — Gemma Malley

I'm gonna give one of 'em my virginity one day." She preened. I was momentarily dumbstruck. I couldn't begin to enumerate all the things that were appalling about that possibility. "We so have to talk," I finally managed. — Karen Marie Moning

Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain and build the #1 public schools in the nation, we had to ask everyone to pay their fair share. We need Congress to do the same. — Martin O'Malley

Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short. — Karen Marie Moning

In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia. — Martin O'Malley

Maybe all these desperate clashing feelings I'm feeling are just random brain activity, maybe I'm just delusional. But there are things that I miss, and things that I feel like I should be seeing and feeling every time I turn around, and I just keep turning and turning and turning, and there's nothing. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of an old book. — Caris O'Malley

I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What are you doing up there?"
"Tracking the Hag. Trying to devise a way to trap her. She's fast but she's not a sifter."
I jerk, and look around warily. That's all we need right now. "Is she here?"
"If you brought that crazy bitch near me again." Ryodan doesn't finish his sentence. He doesn't need to. — Karen Marie Moning

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. — Austin O'Malley

I'm not entirely certain who arranged to have the lighting in the Rooks' offices and quarters hooked up to the Panic Lines, but it has taught me to flinch violently when a lightbulb ceases to work. — Daniel O'Malley

You are the one who called me, Conor O'Malley, it said, looking at him seriously. You are the one with the answers to these questions. — Patrick Ness

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape. — Austin O'Malley

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. — Austin O'Malley

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue. — Martin O'Malley

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. — Austin O'Malley

Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results. — Martin O'Malley

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?"
Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim."
Kim: "You're one of everyone. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it. — Austin O'Malley

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999. — Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments. — Martin O'Malley

Who am I? the monster repeated, still roaring. I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable! It brought Conor up close to its eye. I am thils wild earth, come for you, Conor O'Malley.
"You look like a tree," Conor said. — Patrick Ness

Those who deserve love the least need it the most. — Austin O'Malley

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude. — Austin O'Malley

Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work. — Martin O'Malley

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities. — Martin O'Malley

God is simply love. — Martin O'Malley

She'd neglected makeup entirely, and those damn black eyes lent her the appearance of a raccoon. A raccoon that had gotten hit in the face. After a lifetime of poor nutrition. The silence was broken only by the humming of the lift, and it felt conspicuous. — Daniel O'Malley

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. — Austin O'Malley

We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another
hence her mysteriousness. — Austin O'Malley

We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next. — Martin O'Malley

You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place. — Gemma Malley

Let's be friends based on mutual hate. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy. — Martin O'Malley