Marnie Quotes & Sayings

Oh my god. I can't believe I slapped him.

And I can't help thinking Wow, I did it with my left hand, Marnie would be so proud. — Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. — Marnie Stern

For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously. — Marnie Stern

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ... — Marnie Stern

I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people. — Marnie Stern

Being bisexual is like spending your life choosing between meat and potatoes." Marnie suddenly guffawed. "Make that bananas and mangos! — Eli Easton

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it. — Marnie Stern

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well. — Marnie Stern

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. — Marnie Stern

Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And ... it's just fascinating to me. — Marnie Stern

Trust that where love is given and love is received, every condition is healed. — Eve Marnie

I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song. — Marnie Stern

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together. — Marnie Stern

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion. — Marnie Stern

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal. — Marnie Stern

Yes! Oh, yes! Of course I forgive you! And I love you, Marnie. I shall never forget you, ever! — Joan G. Robinson

There's joy in the journey, not just in its destination. — Marnie C. Ferree

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that. — Marnie Stern

had decided while she was in bed that she would never speak to her again. But she wanted Marnie to see her. She wanted her to look out of her window and see her down there on the staithe, and remember the mean, cruel thing she had done. If — Joan G. Robinson

I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time. — Marnie Stern

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise. — Marnie Stern

'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking. — Tippi Hedren

Strategy for a Marathon

I will start
when the gun goes off.
I will run
for five miles.
Feeling good,
I will run
to the tenth mile.
At the tenth
I will say,
Only three more
to the halfway."
At the halfway mark,
13.1 miles,
I will know
fifteen is in reach.
At fifteen miles
I will say,
You've run twenty before,
keep going."
At twenty
I will say,
Run home. — Marnie Mueller

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me. — Tippi Hedren

'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done. — Hailee Steinfeld

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't. — Marnie Stern

There were also times when they didn't kiss and roam nonstop. The in-between times. That's when they just held each other and whispered. Marnie, of course, heard it all. Adam would try to make Robyn laugh, and she would, whether it was funny or not. She would tease him and he would tell her what it was like before. And they talked about what it would be like after. It was as if they were two normal kids in love, sitting on a sofa in a warm living room, telling each other almost everything and sorting out the world with someone's mom puttering annoyingly in the background. Except, of course, they weren't two normal kids. Would never be. — Teresa Toten

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain. — Marnie Stern

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't. — Marnie Stern

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any. — Marnie Stern

So he learned to look like he was working when he worked. He learned to act like a father when his daughter was around, to look like a husband when Marnie needed a husband. He did what people expected him to or maybe a little more. — T.C. Boyle

Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music. — Marnie Stern

We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core reminding you every day of that which has vanished, but the despair we know today is a sadness sailing sorrow through every bone and knuckle. — Lisa O'Donnell

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there. — Marnie Stern

Hoo-kay, Marnie thought. Whoever this guy was, he'd caught the express train from la-la land and hopped off at weirdsville. And now he was looking around for the platform for his connection to loonytown. — Elizabeth Bevarly

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule. — Marnie Reed Crowell

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal. — Marnie Stern

Sometimes there's someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish. — Marnie Woodrow

When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them. — Marnie Kay

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career. — Marnie Stern

I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek. — Marnie Stern

The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual ... Ooh I like that ... " That was the energy that kept me up. — Marnie Stern

pushed the little girl aside as he wedged his way to the water fountain. The kid turned around to find Mr. Jackson staring down at him. "I've — Marnie Wooding

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly. — Ann Brashares

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people. — Marnie Stern

I want you to come with me when i go. But maybe you will not see your cave again, or the stonee rings where we danced. We will maybe not stay near the sea. Will you be happy?
If I can see your face, he signed, I'll be happy.
he embraced her again. For a long time they stayed with their arms about each other, and Marnie did not notice that the potatoes in the embers were burning black, or that the rabbit had jumped out of its box and was drinking the cup of ale she had placed on the hearth to warm for Father Brannan. — Sherryl Jordan

If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah. — Marnie Stern

Marnie moved nearer and touched her hair. "Dear Anna, I love you more than any girl I've ever known. — Joan G. Robinson

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care. — Ann Brashares

He's good in bed, too?" Marnie asked, clearly skeptical. "That just isn't fair. If I looked like him, I'd
never leave my house. I'd just stay home and fuck myself. If you tell me he has a big dick, I might become either a cutter or a lesbian. — R.K. Lilley

Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch. — Marnie Stern

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something. — Marnie Stern