Mary Maloney Quotes & Sayings

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears. — Graham Speechley

I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you. — Jonathan Swift

The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play. — Mohsin Hamid

Bad news? Oh, festering fungus! What sort of bad news? — Cornelia Funke

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really. — Nellie McKay

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made ... — Malcolm X

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. — Billy Collins

Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night. — Scott Adams

Religion is to wait for the Navratras and the Shradhs to get over so that we can enjoy sex, liquor and flesh. — Himmilicious

I love you, Derek!"
Jason tried to drag Haley back to her seat, but she fought him tooth and nail.
"I love you, Derek!"
"He knows, woman! He's known since the first inning. Let the man focus," he
said. — R.L. Mathewson

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne. — A.S. Byatt

I wanted him so damn bad. I wanted to be ridden, taken filthy and wrong. — Pepper Winters

Humor is a good way to deal with heavy stuff. — Jennifer Probst