Maria Quotes

My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and heels. It's fun!

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50.

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

We especially need imagination in science.

My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.