Marie Quotes
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.
In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.
There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster.
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.
I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.
One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.
There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.
Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.
You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.
They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.
Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.
I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.
remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.
Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.
He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he growled, his burr thickening.
I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.
