Marylinn Markarian Quotes & Sayings

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends. — Tucker Elliot

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. — Jennifer Egan

What are you thinking in that beautiful head of yours? — H.M. Ward

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. — Rick Riordan

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. — Lindsey Graham

I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself. — Kenny Anderson

And I would have answered:
The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins ... Yes, bring that piece to me ... — Sjon

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention. — Annette Bening

And I asked the world to open up, I said, world, please open up, because I'd love to fall into a river of magma and die, just a little bit, but the world couldn't hear me ... — Tahereh Mafi

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important. — James Green

PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated. — John Whiting

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear
ourselves! Until then we have not lived. — Willa Cather

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going. — Michael Shermer