Maria Quotes

I think Channel One was very integral in my career.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

I'm not fighting. I just telling you what's right.

It's good practice to be silly. It's good for you.

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.