Mcgrory Quotes & Sayings

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing. — Matthew McGrory

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it. — Matthew McGrory

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever. — Mary McGrory

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. — Matthew McGrory

The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret. — Brian McGrory

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here. — Mary McGrory

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old. — Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. — Mary McGrory

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year. — Mary McGrory

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be. — Mary McGrory

If there is a secret to writing, I haven't found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there. — Mary McGrory

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go. — Matthew McGrory

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show. — Matthew McGrory

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving. — Mary McGrory

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was. — Rick Perlstein

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. — Mary McGrory

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me. — Matthew McGrory

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it. — Matthew McGrory

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature. — Matthew McGrory

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur. — Mary McGrory

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get. — Matthew McGrory

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings. — Mary McGrory

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration. — Matthew McGrory

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan. — Matthew McGrory

[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try. — Mary McGrory

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine. — Matthew McGrory

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English. — Matthew McGrory

Look closely at this new being. Learn from him how delightful and simple life is meant to be. It's just an instant of time, — Megan McGrory Massaro

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become. — Mary McGrory

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them. — Mary McGrory

Short films don't go too far. — Matthew McGrory

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can. — Matthew McGrory

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake ... — Mary McGrory

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase. — Matthew McGrory

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it. — Matthew McGrory

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying. — Mary McGrory

Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby. — Mary McGrory

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. — Mary McGrory

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever. — Mary McGrory